> > The problem is that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not globally unique.
> >
> > MIT users will have problems talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when "ai" means
> > Anguilla. The is a current security issue.
> >
> > If / when MIT stop using ai.mit.edu, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" will not longer
> > mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] This will mean that any configuration file
> > that has "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" will now, suddenly, get a different
> > meaning.
> > This is a latent security issue.
>
> If by "latent" you mean "so obscure that in the ten years that there's
> been A and MX records at TLDs nobody's been affected" I guess I agree.
Again you are asserting that no one has ever been effected.
By latent, I mean it will cause problems in the future when the
conditions described are met.
Not every action has a immediate consequence. Some consequences
can happen years after the initial action was taken.
The consequences here are foreseeable but not necessarially
obvious to everyone affected.
Mark
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