To:
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
cc:
Kevin Darcy <kcd@daimlerchrysler.com>, <dnsop@cafax.se>
From:
Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Date:
Sat, 22 Mar 2003 13:59:23 -0500 (EST)
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<a05200f04baa25c3f5ee9@[10.0.1.2]>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: [RETRANSMIT] Re: Radical Surgery proposal: stop doingreverse for IPv6.
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Brad Knowles wrote: > Then stop doing it, please! All I ask is that you don't try to > stop others from doing it, if they so choose. We have to stop people from doing damage, (programmers especially) inappropriately relying on, or imputing trust based on a service that is only an untrusted convenience. That is our responsibility. > > You seem to be depending far too much on reverse, and demonstrating the > > harms of reverse. > > I will repeat, I do not depend on it at all. However, there are > others that have demonstrated that they have real applications which > make valid use of it There are no valid uses of reverse, outside of an untrustable convenience function. No other valid uses have been demonstrated. --Dean #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.