A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Applications Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF. Title : A NULL MX Resource Record for Domains that Accept No Mail Authors : John Levine Mark Delany Filename : draft-ietf-appsawg-nullmx-02.txt Pages : 6 Date : 2014-05-25 Abstract: Internet mail determines the address of a receiving server through the DNS, first by looking for an MX record and then by looking for an A/AAAA record as a fallback. Unfortunately this means that the A/ AAAA record is taken to be mail server address even when that address does not accept mail. The NULL MX RR formalizes the existing mechanism by which a domain announces that it accepts no mail, which permits significant operational efficiencies. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-nullmx/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-nullmx-02 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-appsawg-nullmx-02 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt