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RE: [ietf-dkim] Charter bashing...

2005-10-12 06:31:30
 
    ?? delegation of signing capabilities

Disagree

This is actually a show-stopper must have for the ESTG 
group. Most of 
the commercial participants in the group use outsourced 
email senders 
for at least some marketting campaigns. Third party signature 
capability is actually a differentiator against SPF.

Well, in that case I want to see some charter text which 
stops us from defining a full-blown authorization 
infrastructure. My intent was to stop us from defining such a 
protocol to allow one to authorize delegation, but that 
verifiers could of course recognize a delegation if they so 
choose - its just that the protocol which informs the 
verifier about the delegation wouldn't be part of dkim.

OK this sounds more like saying we are not going to support the
provisioning protocols for delegation. I agree here.

What people do consider necessary is a policy tag on a key record that
specifies something like 'this key can only sign email from
marketing(_at_)example(_dot_)com so that the bulk mailer hired to do a promo 
can't
then impersonate the CEO.

More generally I think that instead of enumerating what we won't do we
should enumerate what we will do explicitly and say we will not do
anything else.

        Phill

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