[Asrg] Round 2 of the DNSBL BCP - "collateral damage"

[Steve Atkins]

On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Al Iverson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Steve Atkins
>
>>> There are whitelist DNSBLs.
>>
>> No, there aren't.
>>
>> If it's a whitelist, it's not a blacklist. As for operational use  
>> of a
>> whitelist as a blacklist, see my mention of Habeas below.
>
> I have to agree with Steve, here.
>
> A whitelist using a DNSBL-like publishing mechanism isn't a DNSBL.
> It's a whitelist. A DNSWL.

The interesting case is where a list is being used to publish something
like metrics or datapoints about mail delivery (e.g. ISIPP) and it's not
purely a blacklist or whitelist, just something email-related  
delivered by
DNS. That seems even further out of scope for a BCP on binary  
blacklists,
though.

Cheers,
   Steve