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Re: SMTP RFC: "MUST NOT" change or delete Received header

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 31 March 2014 12:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: SMTP RFC: "MUST NOT" change or delete Received header
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Would it help if the Received: line had a domain-unique stamp, such that
at the border of any "sensitive" place, it would be easy to identify 
the stamp.
I'd love to suggest it be the AS#, because that would have utility for
everyone, but I suspect that many entities that care also don't have
their own ASN, or the network being transitted doesn't have an ASN.

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