At 14:44 25-02-2005, Keith Moore wrote:
If you want a viable authentication proposal, you need to define a new
field which will have a well-established meaning, not try to borrow some
existing field which has either a different meaning (From) or some
existing field which has no consistent use in practice (Sender).
I agree that we don't see a consistent use of the Sender field in
practice. If the agent responsible for the transmission of the message
makes proper use of the Sender field, I don't see why we should redefine a
new field when there is already a field which was set out for that purpose.
Regards,
-sm