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Overview of Best Email DNS-Based List (DNSBL) Operational Practices
draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-10

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Date Rev. By Action
2012-08-22
10 (System) post-migration administrative database adjustment to the No Objection position for Russ Housley
2011-11-01
10 Cindy Morgan State changed to RFC Ed Queue from Approved-announcement sent.
2011-09-27
10 Amy Vezza IESG state changed to Approved-announcement sent
2011-09-27
10 Amy Vezza IESG has approved the document
2011-09-27
10 Amy Vezza Closed "Approve" ballot
2011-09-27
10 Amy Vezza Approval announcement text changed
2011-09-23
10 Amanda Baber We understand that this document doesn't require any IANA actions.
2011-09-22
10 Amy Vezza Removed from agenda for telechat
2011-09-22
10 Pete Resnick State changed to Approved-announcement to be sent from IESG Evaluation.
2011-09-22
10 Pete Resnick Approval announcement text changed
2011-09-22
10 Pete Resnick Approval announcement text regenerated
2011-09-22
10 Russ Housley
[Ballot discuss]
This document is not a BCP, yet it claim to document "best practices",
  Should the IESG ask the IRSG to chose a …
[Ballot discuss]
This document is not a BCP, yet it claim to document "best practices",
  Should the IESG ask the IRSG to chose a phrase that will have less
  likelihood of being confused with a BCP?
2011-09-22
10 Russ Housley [Ballot Position Update] Position for Russ Housley has been changed to No Objection from Discuss
2011-09-22
10 Adrian Farrel
[Ballot comment]
I was surprised that this document did not seek to make any disclaimer wrt the legality of applying blacklists beyond the scope of …
[Ballot comment]
I was surprised that this document did not seek to make any disclaimer wrt the legality of applying blacklists beyond the scope of entirely private systems. I would not want the IRTF to appear to condone practices that may be of dubious legality in some jurasditctions.
2011-09-22
10 Adrian Farrel [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded
2011-09-22
10 Dan Romascanu [Ballot comment]
I support Russ's DISCUSS.
2011-09-22
10 Dan Romascanu [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded
2011-09-22
10 Stephen Farrell [Ballot comment]
I agree with the other discusses to date
2011-09-22
10 Stephen Farrell [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded
2011-09-22
10 Jari Arkko [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded
2011-09-21
10 Robert Sparks [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded
2011-09-21
10 Peter Saint-Andre
[Ballot comment]
Overall I think this is a helpful set of guidelines. Herewith a few comments.

1. I concur with the DISCUSS from Russ Housley. …
[Ballot comment]
Overall I think this is a helpful set of guidelines. Herewith a few comments.

1. I concur with the DISCUSS from Russ Housley. Note that Sections 1.2
and 3.6.1 include the term "BCP".

2. The abstract states:

  This document is a product of the Anti-Spam Research Group and
  represents the consensus of that group.

Section 1.4 states:

  NOTE:  This document is a product of the Anti-Spam Research Group
      (ASRG) of the IRTF.  As per section 3 of [RFC2014] IRTF groups do
      not require consensus to publish documents.  Therefore readers
      should be aware that this document does not necessarily represent
      the consensus of the entire ASRG.

Those two statements appear to be in conflict.

3. With regard to DoS attacks, consider adding a reference to RFC 4732.

4. The security considerations seem a bit thin to me given that DNSBLs
are used in ways different from "normal" DNS servers (e.g., RFC 3833 talks
about denial of service attacks on DNS servers, but not malicious use of
DNS-based services to poison the behavior of email servers and the like).

5. Please expand relevant acronyms on first use and provide appropriate
citations (e.g., "IRC").
2011-09-21
10 Peter Saint-Andre [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded
2011-09-21
10 Russ Housley
[Ballot discuss]
This document is not a BCP, yet it claim to document "best practices",
  Should the IESG ask the IRSG to chose a …
[Ballot discuss]
This document is not a BCP, yet it claim to document "best practices",
  Should the IESG ask the IRSG to chose a phrase that will have less
  likelihood of being confused with a BCP?
2011-09-21
10 Russ Housley [Ballot Position Update] New position, Discuss, has been recorded
2011-09-21
10 Wesley Eddy [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded
2011-09-21
10 Stewart Bryant [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded
2011-09-21
10 Gonzalo Camarillo [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded
2011-09-20
10 Ron Bonica [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded
2011-09-20
10 Pete Resnick Placed on agenda for telechat - 2011-09-22
2011-09-20
10 Pete Resnick State Change Notice email list has been changed to johnl@iecc.com, clewis@nortel.ca, msergeant@messagelabs.com, draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists@tools.ietf.org from clewis@nortel.ca, msergeant@messagelabs.com, draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists@tools.ietf.org
2011-09-20
10 Pete Resnick State changed to IESG Evaluation from Publication Requested.
2011-09-20
10 Pete Resnick [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded for Pete Resnick
2011-09-20
10 Pete Resnick Ballot has been issued
2011-09-20
10 Pete Resnick Created "Approve" ballot
2011-09-20
10 (System) Ballot writeup text was added
2011-09-20
10 (System) Last call text was added
2011-09-20
10 (System) Ballot approval text was added
2011-09-20
10 Pete Resnick Draft added in state Publication Requested
2011-07-25
10 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-10.txt
2011-05-05
09 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-09.txt
2011-03-11
08 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-08.txt
2011-01-04
07 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-07.txt
2010-10-23
06 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-06.txt
2009-05-21
10 (System) Document has expired
2008-11-17
05 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-05.txt
2008-07-28
04 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-04.txt
2008-06-04
03 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-03.txt
2008-04-07
02 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-02.txt
2008-03-24
01 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-01.txt
2004-04-28
00 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists-00.txt