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Re: draft-kucherawy-greylisting-bcp

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Wed, 26 October 2011 16:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: draft-kucherawy-greylisting-bcp
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One 'interesting' aspect of an interop test for greylisting is that it would only affect servers.  Greylisting is supposed to be backward compatible with standards-conforming clients.   What you would want to establish via interoperability testing is that a server that implements greylisting per the RFC doesn't degrade interoperability with existing, properly-implemented, clients.

I don't have a strong opinion of BCP vs. standards-track for this.  I think that if it's desirable to publish an RFC on this topic (which I doubt), either BCP or PS would suffice.   But I do think that if it's going to be published as PS, the document needs to define testing criteria for advancement.

Keith

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