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Re: [ietf-dkim] Consensus point on ADSP

2009-03-29 03:32:22
John,

I think we're rehashing an earlier debate, but...

I realize there are organizations with uncooperative DNS managers who
make it hard to install the key records needed. I wouldn't be
surprised if some of us even work at such organizations.  But a local
optimization that ends up demanding extra work from the rest of the
world to work around one's DNS management is, to put it mildly, not a
great idea. If DKIM is going to be deployed, part of the deployment
will be to figure out how to get the required records installed.
   

This isn't quite a fair characterization.  It's not *just* uncooperative 
DNS managers, but software limitations, differing budget lines, actual 
distinct operating entities where DNS is offered as a service, etc.  I 
would expect that this problem is likely to persist in nearly every S&P 
500 company, a number of governments and educational institutions.  So 
when you call this a 'local optimiziation', maybe it is true in the 
academic sense, but the scope of the locality is quite large.

Eliot
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