Re: [marf] Benoit Claise's Discuss on draft-ietf-marf-as-14: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Wed, 25 April 2012 12:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [marf] Benoit Claise's Discuss on draft-ietf-marf-as-14: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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>> Yes, 2.  But an AS doesn't necessarily (perhaps usually doesn't) cover
>> every use case.  Consider the greylisting document that's also on this
>> week's telechat: it's describing how to use SMTP for a specific use
>> case, to do a specific thing.  Many AS documents will be of that
>> nature, talking about certain use cases, but not every possible one.
>
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-greylisting/ is
> different, as its scope is well defined, starting with the title: "Email
> Greylisting: An Applicability Statement for SMTP"
> On the other hand, "Creation and Use of Email Feedback Reports: An
> Applicability Statement for the Abuse Reporting Format (ARF)" points to a
> generic ARF application statement... which is not.

Hm.  This doesn't cover all use cases for ARF any more than
greylisting covers all use cases for SMTP, so I don't see the point.
But I'll leave it to Murray to respond further on this.  Maybe he has
some other thoughts.[1]

Barry

[1] Well, of course, he does... but I mean thoughts related to this point.