Re: Use of message disposition notification

["Charles Lindsey" <[e-mail]>]

In <96088B3EFAFE49899F643996FBEC91B5@Iulius> Julien ÉLIE <[e-mail]> writes:

>By the way, as you speak about security considerations, I see that USEPRO
>references both pgpmoose and pgpverify.
>Wouldn't a note on Cancel-Lock be added in 6.1?  ("Currently, many sites are
>ignoring all cancel control messages and Supersedes header fields due to
>the difficulty of authenticating them and their widespread abuse.")
>It could be said that Cancel-Lock might be used (draft-ietf-usefor-cancel-lock-01)
>and also NoCeM, which is more and more spread nowadays.

Cancel-Lock is not formally defined anywhere, hence I know of no
news-server that ever looks at it, although a few people add it in hope
:-).

Our original plan of work was that, when we were done with our present
drafts, the next jobs would be UTF-8 in newsgroup-names and a document
covering security matters - notably pgpmoose and pgpverify (which really
need to be unified) plus Cancel-Locks and, I would hope, NoCeM. But those
would  rechartering, and the probability of that happening is not,
shall we say, too promising :-( .

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