Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-03-02 Thread Douglas Otis
On Feb 28, 2009, at 4:14 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: Douglas Otis wrote: The safety of an assumption about an authorizing domain originating a message depends upon the reputation of the SMTP client for its protection of the PRA and Mail From. Unfortunately, identifiers for the SMTP cl

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-28 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Douglas Otis wrote: ESPs optimize profits by reducing their support calls. To do this, they might reduce erroneous rejections by tweaking SPF to make guesses. As such, it is not safe to assume that because the ESP accepted a message from an authorized SMTP client, that: A) the SMTP client

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-27 Thread Douglas Otis
On Feb 27, 2009, at 1:12 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: Douglas Otis wrote: There are hundreds of thousands of legitimate SMTP clients in comparison to hundreds of millions of domains. My understanding is that recipients are only interested in a few domain names: their company, their banks,

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-27 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi, Douglas Otis wrote: There are hundreds of thousands of legitimate SMTP clients in comparison to hundreds of millions of domains. My understanding is that recipients are only interested in a few domain names: their company, their banks, their customers, their providers, and the like. Whil

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-26 Thread Douglas Otis
On Feb 26, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: Douglas Otis wrote: 3) Separate SMTP clients share the same IP addresses. (Unfortunately this is also a common practice. Brazil, Poland, and other places have many ISPs that expect hundreds or thousands of customers to run outboun

RE: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-26 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
@ietf.org Subject: RE: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG At 9:00 PM -0800 2/19/09, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_=_NextPart_001_01C99318.3582B8D8"

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-26 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Douglas Otis wrote: Received: by SMTP id j2cs23447wfe; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:51:01 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Authentication-Results: trusted-isp.com; spf=pass smtp.mail=example.com ... --- or --- Received: by SMTP id j2cs23447wfe; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:51:01 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: (SMT

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-25 Thread Douglas Otis
Doug Otis wrote: Since *authorization* does not *authenticate* a domain as having originated a message, this leaves just the IP address of the SMTP client as a weakly "authenticated origin identifier". The IP address of the SMTP client is the input for Sender-ID or SPF *authorization* mec

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-24 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Doug Otis wrote: Since *authorization* does not *authenticate* a domain as having originated a message, this leaves just the IP address of the SMTP client as a weakly "authenticated origin identifier". The IP address of the SMTP client is the input for Sender-ID or SPF *authorization* mechani

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-23 Thread Doug Otis
On Feb 23, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:11:26 -0800, Doug Otis wrote: This appeal boils down to "someone might misuse it so don't standardize it." Is there any standard to which someone couldn't have made a similar objection? The appeal is in rega

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-23 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:11:26 -0800, Doug Otis wrote: > > This appeal boils down to "someone might misuse it so don't > > standardize it." Is there any standard to which someone couldn't > > have made a similar objection? > > The appeal is in regard to offering recipients potentially misleadin

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-22 Thread Doug Otis
On Feb 20, 2009, at 1:44 AM, John Levine wrote: http://www.ietf.org/IESG/APPEALS/appeal-otis-2009-02-16.txt This appeal boils down to "someone might misuse it so don't standardize it." Is there any standard to which someone couldn't have made a similar objection? The appeal is in rega

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-21 Thread Douglas Otis
On Feb 19, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: The IESG wrote: The IESG has received an appeal regarding the previously approved draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header-20. The appeal text can be found here: http://www.ietf.org/IESG/APPEALS/appeal-otis-2009-02-16.txt This note offers com

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-21 Thread Stephen Kent
At 7:06 PM -0800 2/20/09, Dave CROCKER wrote: Stephen Kent wrote: At 9:00 PM -0800 2/19/09, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Just as a matter of observation, ... ... I have not read the doc in question,... Hey guys. As someone who is frequently faced with trying to parse out what are

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-21 Thread SM
At 10:57 20-02-2009, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: All of the issues Mr. Otis raises have been given substantially more than a normal amount of consideration, yet they have failed to attract any detectable consensus. Disagreement with both his concerns and his proposed remedies is ample and well-do

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-20 Thread Dave CROCKER
Stephen Kent wrote: At 9:00 PM -0800 2/19/09, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Just as a matter of observation, ... ... I have not read the doc in question,... Hey guys. As someone who is frequently faced with trying to parse out what are and are not the commonly held views among the

RE: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-20 Thread Stephen Kent
At 9:00 PM -0800 2/19/09, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_=_NextPart_001_01C99318.3582B8D8" Just as a matter of observation, there is not and never has been a security requirement to rigidly sepa

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-20 Thread John Levine
> http://www.ietf.org/IESG/APPEALS/appeal-otis-2009-02-16.txt This appeal boils down to "someone might misuse it so don't standardize it." Is there any standard to which someone couldn't have made a similar objection? Much of the bad stuff they say about SPF and Sender-ID is correct, but it'll

RE: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-19 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
system such as SAML you actually have three classes of data with the introduction of attributes. From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org on behalf of Scott Kitterman Sent: Thu 2/19/2009 9:32 PM To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-19 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:04:31 -0800 Dave CROCKER wrote: >This appeal lacks merit on basic points. > +1. I don't think I could have said it better myself. I was involved in the MARID and DKIM working groups and was involved in the group that helped put together this draft. All these points hav

Re: Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-19 Thread Dave CROCKER
The IESG wrote: The IESG has received an appeal regarding the previously approved draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header-20. The appeal text can be found here: http://www.ietf.org/IESG/APPEALS/appeal-otis-2009-02-16.txt Greetings. This note offers comments on the appeal, draft-otis-auth-he

Comments requested on recent appeal to the IESG

2009-02-19 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received an appeal regarding the previously approved draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header-20. The appeal text can be found here: http://www.ietf.org/IESG/APPEALS/appeal-otis-2009-02-16.txt The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits comments on the concern