So everytime someone uses your copyrighted dns entry YOUR going to: Find them Sue them Prove in a court of law it was them etc...
----- Original Message ----- >Well, I was off on Vancouver Island for nearly a week, and >didn't take a laptop with me... Clearly it caused some >major trauma because I had the following hallucinatory >idea: > >I was thinking about the issue in which sending spam isn't >a crime in a lot of countries, or if it is that it's poorly >enforced. > >Then I thought of SPF, Domain-Keys, and ways to enforce >authenticity using existing laws... > >And came up with this idea. > >What if we had a TXT Record in the DNS for a domain that >looked like: > >@ IN TXT "XYZZY 123 456 (C) Copyright >2006 Redfish Solutions, LLC" > >And then had hosts participating in this scheme generate >outgoing mail as: > >X-Yes-Its-Really-Me: XYZZY 123 456 (C) Copyright 2006 >Redfish Solutions, LLC" > >and uses the presence of this copywritten key to match the >appropriate string >in the DNS as proof that the sender is who he says he is. > >Then if the scheme were widely adopted (we could have an >applet or script that generated a random string and primed >the DNS with it or could be easily cut-n-pasted into the >DNS configuration... the MTA could of course extract the >string easily, as could anyone else for verification), then >it would be a >leverage point if someone started forging emails. > >While sending spam might not be a crime in all civilized >countries, copyright >infringement is. > >Is that too "out there?" > >-Philip > ================================= Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator Information Technology Services (250) 562-2131 local 448 My Blog: http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/blogs/gagel ------------------------------------------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. Anti-spam information for CNC can be found at http://avas.cnc.bc.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------
