On Apr 18, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
There's been a good bit of MUA related discussion about
long time periods.
Our charter says explicitly that the following is out of
scope:
* Signatures that are intended to make long-term assertions beyond the
expected transit time of a message from originator to recipient,
which is normally only a matter of a few days at most.
The term transit however does include the IMAP and POP transport and
the recipient may perform DKIM verifications at the MUA rather than
elsewhere. The difference between 7 and 45 days does not make this a
"long term" assertion. The goal of DKIM offering protection for the
"expected transit time", ensuring the message reaches the
"recipient", remains the critical criteria which seems well within
the charter.
-Doug
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