Re: [Asrg] Iteration #3.

Dave CROCKER <dhc@dcrocker.net> Sun, 07 February 2010 17:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] Iteration #3.
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On 2/7/2010 4:16 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> For this reason the MTA operator would probably want to discard messages
> to the arf reporting address unless they were submitted via the MSA
> submission port, or came from inside the MTA operators own network.


The question of differentiating between reports that come from within the 
operator's trust boundary, versus from outside of it, is certainly reasonable to 
worry about for a reporting mechanism like this.

Exactly how to resolve that question might be easy or difficult, probably 
depending upon tradeoffs between false rejection of reports vs. false acceptance 
of them...

For some environment, I'd expect your simple rule to be entirely adequate.

d/
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