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Re: [ietf-dkim] DKIM Agenda Item Safer than SSP

2006-07-05 18:30:43

On Jul 5, 2006, at 5:26 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:


It is premature to try to guess how internationalized email addresses will look or be handled. We should not cover this in DKIM until the work in the
EAI WG is finished.

+1
+1
+1...

Creating critical dependencies on a specific outcome of a difficult and controversial bit of IETF work -- and especially one with a long history -- is a
really excellent way to fail.

This seems to be a comment against SSP. The alternative being suggested makes no assumptions about internationalization or a recipient's ability to recognize an email-address. Whereas SSP protection through categorization of non-signed messages depends primarily upon the increasingly questionable recognitions which are already impacted by domain name internationalization that is not affected by the outcome of the EAI WG. The threat draft has already concluded this threat represents a high impact high likelihood. If nothing else there was already some consensus regarding this concern. There are no dependencies related to the suggested solutions however.

-Doug


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