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DKIM for Discussion Lists

• Comment posted Sep 25, 2011 4:17 pm PDT — by J.D. Falk
  That draft has now been published as RFC 6377. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6377

Top 3 New Requirements to the TLD Evaluation Criteria and What They Mean for Applicants

• Comment posted Apr 27, 2011 6:46 pm PDT — by J.D. Falk
  This is all very good news.  Now for the hard part: will they actually enforce any of this?

Impenetrable Processes and Fool's Gold at ICANN

• Comment posted Apr 06, 2011 5:31 pm PDT — by J.D. Falk
  David, I heard a few different people (maybe one of them was you) talking about disenfranchised users in other countries during the ICANN meeting, but I couldn't quite follow the argument — there's probably some context I'm missing. Could you…

How the End of IPv4 Affects Email and Hosting

• Comment posted Feb 11, 2011 8:03 pm PST — by J.D. Falk
  It's a neat idea.  Mail servers will probably have to straddle both IPv4 and IPv6 for a long time, as my colleague Todd Herr wrote in an article last year: http://www.returnpath.net/blog/received/2010/08/ipv6-and-email/ From there, well...as you say, staggering inertia.

Confirmed: Bill Clinton to Address ICANN Meeting in SF

• Comment posted Jan 14, 2011 4:57 pm PST — by J.D. Falk
  Avri, if those developing economies want to participate, they should start training a whole lot of corporate trademark lawyers.  That's the only part of the "private sector" who are certain to benefit from this expansion.  It's clearly not for the…

• Comment posted Jan 13, 2011 10:24 pm PST — by J.D. Falk
  Is this a sign of ICANN's importance, or of their already making more money than they know what to do with?

Where Every Phisher Knows Your Name

• Comment posted Jan 06, 2011 7:43 pm PST — by J.D. Falk
  This followup article discusses one simple partial solution, though of course it isn't a FUSPP: http://www.returnpath.net/blog/received/2011/01/easy-phish/

Facebook + email = Facebook

• Comment posted Nov 15, 2010 7:23 pm PST — by J.D. Falk
  Facebook's new messaging system is even less like email than I'd expected.  It's much more like Google Wave, only without any of the cool collaboration features.

Libyan Government Seizes vb.ly Domain

• Comment posted Oct 06, 2010 8:13 pm PDT — by J.D. Falk
  It shouldn't be any surprise that Country Code TLD operators have to follow the laws of their country, no matter how those laws may appear to others.

DKIM for Discussion Lists

• Comment posted Sep 01, 2010 6:12 pm PDT — by J.D. Falk
  There's now an IETF draft being developed with additional advice for mailing list operators: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists

Clouded by a Convenient Illusion

• Comment posted Aug 10, 2010 4:43 pm PDT — by J.D. Falk
  Over at Computerworld, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (who I remember clearly as being one of the very first clueful reporters covering the internet) makes some similar points, backed with more research: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180082/Falling_through_clouds

• Comment posted Jul 28, 2010 2:02 am PDT — by J.D. Falk
  Philip, thanks for the comments — they're probably substantial enough for a new article. I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm against all cloudy stuff.  I'm not; I use many such services myself, including publishing on CircleID. The point I'm…

MIT 2010 Spam Conference Starts Tomorrow...

• Comment posted Mar 26, 2010 1:24 am PDT — by J.D. Falk
  Looks like some good content, but I was surprised to see that the event is the same week as IETF 77 — and on the other side of the continent.

An Unwelcome Afterlife for a Long-Dead Blacklist

• Comment posted Oct 14, 2009 8:50 pm PDT — by J.D. Falk
  If our lists were to go away some day, we'd close 'em in accordance with the best practices described above.  Or were you trying to be funny?

Risk of Portfolio Approach to Cybersquatting

• Comment posted Oct 05, 2009 9:16 pm PDT — by J.D. Falk
  What is a portfolio, in this context?

DKIM for Discussion Lists

• Comment posted Jun 13, 2009 12:52 pm PDT — by J.D. Falk
  There's been some additional discussion about this on the ietf-dkim list, with a few people vehemently against the recipe above.  Hector Santos summed up the differences nicely in this message.  My reply is here. If all you care about is…

• Comment posted Jun 05, 2009 6:14 pm PDT — by J.D. Falk
  To my mind, signing the Authentication-Results header still has the same concept of taking responsibility for that header.  Downstream entities will have to make up their own minds whether that responsibility is sufficient to denote correctness.  Even so, I'm also…

• Comment posted Jun 02, 2009 10:38 pm PDT — by J.D. Falk
  Oops, one correction: step #3 above doesn't happen by default, but MailMan and other list software can easily be configured to strip particular headers — or you can use procmail or other mail filtering software between the MTA and the…

Searching for Truth in DKIM: Part 1 of 5

• Comment posted Mar 10, 2009 10:27 am PDT — by J.D. Falk
  Good points, Jim, and thanks for the clarification...seems like a lot of the confusion starts with improper analogies.  I'll be avoiding 'em in the rest of this series.

The Root of All Email

• Comment posted Oct 07, 2008 12:19 am PDT — by J.D. Falk
  Yep, but the way he described it, he might as well have been talking about email.  Your thesis sounds interesting; is it online?

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail CAPTCHA In Need of Urgent Fix

• Comment posted Jul 06, 2008 5:49 pm PDT — by J.D. Falk
  Seems like the only "proof" that major webmail providers' CAPTCHA systems have been broken is simply that they've got a lot of spammy accounts.  But that doesn't actually tell us whether the systems have been broken by technological means, or…

Spam Turns 30

• Comment posted Apr 25, 2008 6:55 pm PDT — by J.D. Falk
  Why is that first DEC spam always mentioned?  There wasn't a straight line from Gary to the modern botnet operators — there was really only a tiny trickle of impoliteness between 1978 and 1994.  Today's spammers have almost nothing in…

Call for "ISP Point of Contact" Database for Neutrality "Event" Concerns

• Comment posted Apr 09, 2008 12:21 am PDT — by J.D. Falk
  You're not the first to think of this. Jared Mauch's NOC list was one of the few successful projects along these lines.  I'm not sure how current it is, though. Another is the Packet Clearing House's INOC-DBA, which I understand…