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Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: ISSUE 1525 -- Restriction to posting by first Author breaks email semantics

2008-01-16 18:03:07


Jim Fenton wrote:
RFC 5016:
          While a DKIM signed message
   speaks for itself, there is ambiguity if a message doesn't have a
   valid first party signature (i.e., on behalf of the [RFC2822].From
address): is this to be expected or not?

This requirements statement is actually self-contradictory, since the words "speaks for itself" rather explicitly means that any signature is sufficient, while the rest of the sentence seems to mean that the wishes of the purported author dominate.

This is not a requirements statement; you are quoting from the introduction to RFC 5016, containing discussion leading up to the actual requirements statements in section 5.

Are you saying that the Introduction's statement is wrong?

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net
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