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Re: [ietf-dkim] Review of draft-fenton-dkim-threats-01

2005-10-30 00:49:30
"John R Levine" <johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com> writes:

Yes, and if there were a proposal for standardizing something that
depended on solving World Hunger first, I would be skeptical of
that too.

Since the people I know involved with DKIM expect it to be plenty useful
without third party reputation services, I'm not sure what your point is.

Well, they may expect it to be, but I haven't heard any arguments
along those lines that I find convincing.


Demanding reputation systems for DKIM is approximately like saying that
SMTP depends on solving the problem of getting mail into users' mailboxes.
Every SMTP server has to have a way to get the mail into the mailboxes,
but we've been getting by without a standard way to do it for 25 years and
SMTP seems to be usable anyway.

I generally find arguments by analogy fairly unconvincing.
This is one such argument.

-Ekr
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