I-D (Re: Out of date contact information )

[...] I'd suggest including (in no particular order) the following:

      Address Operations Area Example Usage
      --------------------------------------------------------------
      hostmaster Network Operations DNS issues
      security Network Operations System security or hacking
      www Customer Support Same as webmaster
      listowner Customer Support Mailing list administrator
      routing Network Operations Network routing issues
      nic Network Operations Same as noc
      news Customer Support Same as usenet
      help Customer Support Same as support

hostmaster was done in the -01 draft, sent shortly ago. security seems
reasonable but is this current practice anywhere you know of? www and
news are current practice, i'll add those but note that these are used
for internal errors in those services and may point to different folks
than the ones for external queries.

listowner is new to me. i've seen listserv. i think this is slippery
enough to warrant a blanket "use *-REQUEST or POSTMASTER" which is what
-01 says. comments on this are welcome.

routing is a current practice. i'll add it.

nic should probably be a synonym for hostmaster rather than noc.

help for support seems reasonable.

should the document state which of these are recommended for new sites
and which are listed only for backward compatibility with random older
nonstandardized sites? i think so.

> 5 - Security Considerations
>
> Denial of service attacks (flooding a mailbox with junk) will be easier
> after this document becomes a standard.

  Would it be appropriate to mention Procmail here as a partial
solution, or would that be better suited to a seperate document?

totally inappropriate for this document, thanks for asking though.

> [...] I'd suggest including (in no particular order) the following:
>
> Address Operations Area Example Usage
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> hostmaster Network Operations DNS issues
> security Network Operations System security or hacking
> www Customer Support Same as webmaster
> listowner Customer Support Mailing list administrator
> routing Network Operations Network routing issues
> nic Network Operations Same as noc
> news Customer Support Same as usenet
> help Customer Support Same as support

hostmaster was done in the -01 draft, sent shortly ago. security seems
reasonable but is this current practice anywhere you know of?

  I beleive that SprintLink uses it, but I've got permanent routing
anomalies in my memory so I can't be sure.

[various other comments munged]

should the document state which of these are recommended for new sites
and which are listed only for backward compatibility with random older
nonstandardized sites? i think so.

  Agreed.

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