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Re: BCP38 making it work, solving problems


From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:08:39 +0200


On 14-okt-04, at 0:17, Fred Baker wrote:

Trusting the source when it says that its packets aren't evil might be sub-optimal. Evaluation of evilness is best left up to the receiver.

Likely true. Next question is whether the receiver can really determine that in real time. For some things, yes, but for many things it is not as obvious to me.

It would be a very good start not having to receive that which you can identify as something you don't want.


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