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Re: [ietf-dkim] Concerns about DKIM and mailiing lists

2006-03-15 09:34:21



With DKIM, they will be in "violation" of an Internet standard insofar
as they corrupt a legitimately signed piece of email, and preserve the
From: address. To a receiver, there is absolutely no difference between that case and the case that we'd like to guard against,
namely spoofing of From: addresses.

Oh.  Really?

Where is the standard that says that a mailing is is required to preserve specific pieces of information from a message posted to it?

Folks keep forgetting that a mailing list agent is a user agent. User agents can do whatever they want, absent formal specifications to the contrary.


Mailing list software and their operators are perfectly at liberty
to stick their head in the sand, but I'm perfectly at liberty as
a receiver to treat mailing list email the same way that I treat
other likely forgeries.

The problem, here, is that it is not about forgery. It is about designing mailing list software to do things that mailing list users find useful.

The fact that some things they find useful might have an impact on DKIM's ability to be forwarded is unfortunate, but is a long way from illegal.


The object here is to reach an accommodation between these
two competing needs.

I think that you think we are in a negotiation with the mailing list community.

"Negotiation" and "community" are your words, not mine.

Please consider using them, since I believe they describe your assumptions rather accurately and concisely.

To the extent they don't, please explain.

d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
<http://bbiw.net>
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