[apnic-announce] Changes to authentication of Whois maintainer objects
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Changes to authentication of Whois maintainer objects:
- MAIL-FROM authentication no longer available
after 17 December 2002
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APNIC is implementing a decision made at the 14th APNIC Open Policy
Meeting to deprecate MAIL-FROM authentication of maintainer objects.
The deprecation of MAIL-FROM will strengthen security measures for
maintainers and the objects they protect. For information on the
proposal and the discussion, see:
http://www.apnic.net/meetings/14/sigs/db/minutes.html
The implementation has commenced and MAIL-FROM authentication of
maintainer objects will not be possible after 17 December 2002.
APNIC is contacting all users of MAIL-FROM authentication to explain the
procedure for changing authentication methods, details of which are
available at:
http://www.apnic.net/db/ref/attributes/mntner/auth-mntner.html
If you are using MAIL-FROM authentication you can change to CRYPT-PW at:
http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/maintainer.pl
For further assistance, please contact the APNIC Member Services
Helpdesk at:
Phone: +61-7-3858-3188
Fax: +61-7-3858-3199
E-mail: helpdesk at apnic dot net
Regards,
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APNIC Secretariat <secretariat at apnic dot net>
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre Tel: +61-7-3858-3100
PO Box 2131 Milton, QLD 4064 Australia Fax: +61-7-3858-3199
Level 1, 33 Park Road, Milton, QLD http://www.apnic.net
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