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Re: [ietf-dkim] New issue: What is the purpose of SSP? {3.5}

2006-09-21 07:15:25


Jim Fenton wrote:
  - My largest customers will not deploy DKIM verification if it
    requires making a DNS query (or two) for every single non-signed
    email that they receive.  Even if it makes no real-world difference,
    some people just won't do it.
I don't understand this.  Many people routinely do reverse DNS lookups
on the IP address from which messages are received, SPF checks (which
can be several lookups), and so forth.  Why the sensitivity to
additional, potentially well-cached lookups?

That's the difference between trying to tell people what is best for them, versus listening to what they are comfortable with.

A MUST should be used when the thing being referred to is required for the functionality to be meaningful. If it remain meaningful in spite of exceptions, then a MAY is probably acceptable.


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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net
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