Steven M. Bellovin schrieb: > In some sense, I have more trouble with white lists than black lists. > > My concern is centralization of power. If used properly, white lists > are fine. If used improperly, they're a way to form an email cartel, > forcing organizations to buy email transit from a member of the inner > circle. That is fundamentally true, and is the very reason dnswl.org is _not_ built around a business model, but as an all-volunteer organisation. The "value" of such an organisation is the trust given by the users of the whitelist data. Abuse of this trust would very fast be sanctioned by not using the data any more. However, this is independent from the technical specification of the protocol, which I think is valuable. While this draft does not specify the only protocol available to query our data, it is by far (in the high 90%-region) the most important one (either through queries to our public servers or through local/private mirrors). -- Matthias _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf