Re: Confirming the Nominet position

[geoff@nominet.org.uk (Geoffrey Sisson)]

Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> writes:

> i disagree.  when i put the first AXFR-blocking code into BIND 4 in ~1988,
> i considered it a protocol violation and i made my apologies to the gods.
> 
> it appears that those gods have a long memory, and a grand scale of vengeance.

RFC 821 specifies SMTP as a protocol which permits any host to connect
to an `SMTP-receiver' and deliver messages.  Unanticipated developments
in the use of SMTP have resulted in this any <-> any principle being
challanged, in particular in the work of the marid WG.  There have
certainly been comparable developments in the (ab)use of DNS; perhaps
behaviour that was introduced via implementation rather than
specification should now be `ratified' via a standards-track document?

Regards

Geoff

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