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Re: [ietf-dkim] The (really) latest SSP draft

2007-10-22 14:33:05
On Oct 22, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Jon Callas wrote:

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So if he said i=subdomain.example.com, then surely the From/Sender
can be expected to be from that subdomain; and if he said
i=someone(_at_)example(_dot_)com, then surely recipients can assume that
'someone' had indeed played some part in sending it.


Absolutely not. DKIM is a protocol in which one administrative domain
speaks primarily to other administrative domain. It's not a domain-to-
user protocol nor a user-to-anything protocol. The i= parameter can
be anything the signing domain wants it to be. It is unlikely to be
an outright lie (for example, I mark all mail coming from alice with
bob), but it may be.


I liken i= to IDENT (RFC1413). The values *may* be meaningful to the administrative domain, but that's all that can be said about it.


Mark.

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