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RE: [Asrg] 6 - Yahoo Domain Keys

2004-05-20 01:32:07

Good Day Mark

I should have read the draft a little closer, your section on Border MTA's
is really what I was trying to get at.

As I have said source validation is only the first step. but it is a marked
improvement on what we have today.

I hope your Draft allows this group and others to become more focused in
their continual debate.

Regards
Chris



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Delany [mailto:markd(_at_)yahoo-inc(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, 20 May 2004 4:27 PM
To: Chris
Subject: Re: [Asrg] 6 - Yahoo Domain Keys


On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:56:17PM +0930, Chris allegedly wrote:

Except I believe provision should be made for any intervening
MTA's to add
their own Domain Key
thus allowing the injection point be traced for legacy mail systems.

As it happens, I agree. This is the reason why the spec specifically
says that current implementations must look for the last Signature in
the headers. Why? So we can issue a follow-on spec that allows for
multiple signatures without breaking earlier implementations.

Additional signatures can do things like:

      o Prove the right to use or replace an envelope address
      o Prove that an email was relayed thru a domain
      o Prove that a list has forwarded an email
      o You tell me?

We have this stuff in mind, we just don't want to scare people too
much. One step at a time.


Mark.


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