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Re: [ietf-dkim] draft Errata on RFC 4871

2009-01-27 12:54:21


Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:05 PM, John Levine <johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com> 
wrote:
This agrees with my understanding, too.  The i= may have to be an
identity, but nothing says the identity has to be meaningful to anyone
other than the signer.

In which case either the errata doc or the -bis rfc has to introduce a
"MAY" for i= being an identity instead of tying the two together and
effectively excluding the most common uses to which i= will be put.


Interesting.  The key point I'm hearing is that having i= represent the 
identity 
of an (individual) user makes it inappropriate to use for identifying a mail 
stream, that is, aggregate traffic.

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net
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