On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:59, Ted Hardie wrote:
At 3:32 PM -0700 8/12/04, Douglas Otis wrote:
There is a proposal that should interest you. It is called Bounce Tag Address Validation By Dave Crocker.
http://www.brandenburg.com/specifications/draft-crocker-marid-batv-00-06dc.h...
This proposal is now in the IETF MASS WG.
There was a BoF called MASS held at the recent IETF meetings in San Diego; it has not yet been approved as a working group and no charter has been reviewed by the IESG. While I believe the work on BATV is interesting, I am not sure gating it on the approval of MASS is a good idea. One of BATV's advantages is that there are ways to use it which are workable within a single domain's administrative control. These do not eliminate a domain's need to do some handling of bounces, but they can avoid those bounces ending up in individuals' mailboxes. Reading the drafts, commenting to the authors, and trying out those elements of the system need not wait for action on the WG.
You are right, in that I anticipate the approval of the MASS charter. The BoF did introduce the BATV as a potential work element. MASS and BATV received a fair amount of attention, as it does address an annoying problem. From my perspective, as the BoF had to move to a large room to accommodate those in attendance, if this group does not obtain approval I would be surprised. I could be wrong. -Doug