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by _joel 1081 days ago
It's not part of SMTP, it's part of the cludge of anti-spam measures we bolted on top of it.
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...bolted on top of DNS.
Sure, in addition to this though. IP reputation comes from spamhaus.org and the like and implemented in spamassassin or something similar, at SMTP(ish) level.

What you're talking about there is SPF/DKIM etc, which is an anti-spam measure but not IP reputation :)