Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

I don't think this is a major issue, for two reasons: By the time that  
IPv6 mail becomes common, mail clients (and MTAs) will have been  
updated numerous times to deal with the security issue de jour.  
Secondly, even if a mail client or MTA were to erroneously implement  
this behavior, this causes no particular harm to the world at large,  
except bad error behavior for that particular MTA or MUA.

Henning

On Mar 31, 2008, at 7:58 AM, Tony Finch wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, John Levine wrote:
>>
>> Getting rid of the AAAA fallback flips the default to be in line with
>> reality -- most hosts don't want to receive mail directly, so if
>> you're one of the minority that actually does, you affirmatively
>> publish an MX to say so.
>
> I agree that this is the right thing to do in an ideal world.
>
> However there's a lot of old running code out there that implements  
> the
> AAAA fallback. Is IPv6 still enough of a toy that the stability of its
> specifications doesn't matter?
>
> Tony (in two minds).
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