ietf-dkim
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [ietf-dkim] Lists "BCP" draft available

2010-05-10 17:07:50
On May 10, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Franck Martin wrote:

This looks good. Ok to become a WG document

+1

Pity we may need a separate document for "forwarding" or can this notion be 
included in the current document?

It's complex enough with all the different ways that MLM-style remailing can be 
implemented.  Single-address forwarding is clearly related to /some/ of those 
methods, but not all, so I think confusion would be even more certain if we 
included that too.

Also can parts be more normative than informational? ie what a MLM MUST do 
when supporting DKIM.

That brings up the strange question of what "supporting DKIM" is.

I think we could write normative language for what MLM software MUST NOT do if 
it wants to pass DKIM-signed messages through unscathed.  We could also write 
normative language for what MLM software MUST do if it wants to sign the 
messages itself (that's pretty obvious.)  But it's all the places in between 
that get complicated -- particularly when MLM developers are (in my experience) 
notoriously slow to add features.

--
J.D. Falk <jdfalk(_at_)returnpath(_dot_)net>
Return Path Inc





_______________________________________________
NOTE WELL: This list operates according to 
http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html