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

2006-09-21 13:59:31

On Sep 21, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Tim Draegen wrote:


My main points wrt this effort:

a. Signers MUST publish a SSP record.  Its easier for me to say
"you must publish this record, please do it" if the stone-tablet
in IETF-land says so.

b. Verifiers should be allowed to function without any need to
query an SSP record.  In my case, my 3rd-party reputation agents
will be doing the tracking of SSP records.  For whatever reason,
I'll have customers that want to do it themselves, and I'll expose
that functionality.

In sum, I think the SSP-req doc should say "SSP must be published
by DKIM signers, and the format is <this>".  I guess some sample
scenarios on the verification half can be described, but I think
that just adds confusion, and would be mostly wrong anyway.

If I understand you correctly you're suggesting that publishing
SSP records be mandated by dkim-base?

If so, -1.

Cheers,
  Steve

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