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Charles Lindsey wrote:
DKIM will have no effect on the present spam/phishing/malware scene
unless it is widely adopted. It will not be widely adopted unless it is
seen to be robust. In particular, it will not be adopted in countries
(esp those in Asia) where the character sets used are totally unlike
ASCII if it can only be made to work by forcing everything to be sent as
7bit. They just cannot survive in an environment where textual messages
'on the wire' cannot easily be read in that form. They will just resort
to "send 8bits anyway" which is already happening, even with headers, to
a large extent, because 99.9% of the time it actually works like that
without problem.
That is why the parallel EAI effort has been mentined so often in these
discussions, because it is pulling in exactly the opposite direction to
this WG, and it is the Chinese and the Japanese who are pulling the
hardest.
From what I have seen, doing a basic web search on your history, you've been
around and done a lot.
That said, I'm curious about the basis for your firm certitude about what the
adoption barriers/requirements are for Internet mechanisms.
Just to be clear: No one disputes the need for supporting a full range of
characters. But no one with experience also denies that it is a difficult problem.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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