Re: Mail Server Registries and Foreign Sender Authentication: A Proposal

[Frank Ellermann <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HECTOR SANTOS wrote:

> But the old school FTN net police insisted on FTN1 and rejected
> applications, registrations of any person installing newer and
> better software if it didn't have FTN1 support.

Nobody was forced to use it for sending mail, unless that person
was a *C obliged to test that applicants can receive FTN1 mails.
I needed FTN1 for crash mails (rarely, but still).

> The one thing the FTSC had control of was the NodeList

Nope.  The FTSC was the standards committee, like IETF/IESG/IAB.

The NodeLists were controlled by the *Cs (ultimately the ZCs of
the relevant zones), that's like ICANN.  The FTSC controlled the
definition of the nodelist format (in theory, never changed in
my time), not the content.

Frank