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[ietf-dkim] 1365, with a question about the "we never send mail"

2006-10-14 08:18:07
On Thursday 12 October 2006 14:51, DKIM Chair wrote:

That left issue 1365, with a question about the "we never send mail"
issue.  The initial proposal was to remove the text, considering it to
be a special case of "strict", but when Doug opened that back on the
list there was significant support to keep it.  I'll put that back out
to the list now (please put the issue number in the subject line): If
you object to leaving it in, please say so and say why.

I think that being able to express 'we never send mail' is important.

There is already one way to express this defined as part of an experimental 
protocol in RFC 4408 that has significant deployment.  While that is a 
controversial protocol in general, I do not think that most of the 
controversy applies to domains that send no mail.  That one piece could be 
broken out in a separate draft without carrying forward the aspects of the 
experimental protocol that some find problematic.

Instead of defining yet another way to express the same thing (which may at 
least be arguably outside the charter of the group), an alternative approach 
might be for this working group to punt 'we never send mail' back to the 
AD/IESG (I'm still hazy on lots of IETF process, so forgive me if that's the 
wrong direction) with a recommendation that this is something the group feels 
will support receivers in evaluating DKIM signed mail, but that the group 
felt was better addressed elsewhere.

Scott K
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