Hi Dave, I take no position on whether it's in good taste to use the word "whitelist" in this particular instance or in general, but On 2011-05-16, at 18:21, Dave CROCKER wrote: > 1. It is not previously standardized and I believe it is not documented in an RFC. the term appears to have some precedent in the RFC series (see <http://www.google.com/search?q=whitelist+rfc+site:rfc-editor.org>, which includes such contexts as DNS, mail, SDP, Atom, v4 and v6 network operations and SIP), and > 2. It is typically a split-DNS private/public mechanism. No. Joe _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf