Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

--On Saturday, 08 November, 2008 12:31 -0500 Keith Moore
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> John Levine wrote:
>>> standardizing them and formally recommending their use
>> 
>> I'm not aware of any language in the current draft that
>> recommends that people use DNSBLs. 
> 
> Standardizing it is an implicit recommendation.  In particular
> it's a statement that there are "no known technical omissions"
> about the protocol.  Which is not an accurate description of
> the protocol at hand.

I'm am beginning to wish for the days at which, at least in
principle, we could standardize something and immediately put a
"not recommended" label on it.   I agree with John and Dave that
having an agreed-upon specification for how to do these things
if one insists on doing them would be a good idea.   I'm just
concerned about the implication of encouragement to do it, at
least without much stronger Security and Operational
considerations material than is now present (and, Dave, that
isn't a vague "don't like it" complaint -- it is a reference to
my earlier note, Keith's notes, ekr's notes, etc.).

    john


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