Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-crocker-marid-smtp-validate-00.txt

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 16:18:46 -0400

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.

	Title		: Client SMTP Validation (CSV)
	Author(s)	: D. Crocker
	Filename	: draft-crocker-marid-smtp-validate-00.txt
	Pages		: 0
	Date		: 2004-4-8
	
Internet mail suffers from the operation of hosts that
     operate as mail transfer agents (MTA) without any
     accountability.  This makes it impossible to vet MTAs
     or find recourse when their operation causes problems.
     The current specification defines a modest mechanism
     that permits session-time, domain-based validation of
     peer, client MTAs without prior arrangement between the
     MTAs.  The mechanism is built upon functional
     components for registering service support and for
     validating that a name is associated with an IP
     address.  It provides a small, simple and useful
     improvement to Internet mail service accountability.
     It is based on well-understood mechanisms and is easily
     deployed and used.  Note that validation does not imply
     that the MTA is well behaved, merely that it is
     accountable to the cited domain administrator.

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