Thus spake Dean Robb
I think it would be a reasonable proposal for ARIN to modify its SWIP process to do a dnslookup for the email domain to very it as valid. Possibly even a SMTP VRFY or EXPN command. [...] As for the confidentiality matter: there's a problem...a little thing called the RFCs. Specifically, RFCs 1032, 1033, 920, 1173, 1174 (and several others) require contact information that is "complete, correct and
I think he was referring to organizations that don't reveal the user data (or reveal bogus data) in response to a SMTP VRFY or EXPN command, not the data in the whois record. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@{druid|vex}.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 424 2871 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner.