Subject: Re: draft-danisch-dns-rr-smtp-02.txt

From: Simon Josefsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 01:37:05 +0200

Dean Anderson <[email-masked]> writes:

> Therefore, I think this proposal will have no effect on the problem of
> spam control, and leads to a gratuitous change to the DNS protocol.
..
>> this is simply a low hanging fruit exercise, the cost of deployment is low
>> and the leverage is significant.
>
> The cost of altering the worlds DNS servers is usually considered high.

If the world's DNS servers are compatible with d-i-dnsext-unknown-rrs,
no changes to them are required to support RMX.  Other systems (e.g.,
DNSSEC) are contingent on d-i-dnsext-unknown-rrs, so I don't think
there is much practical merit to this argument against RMX.

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