On Sep 13, 2010, at 8:43 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
But if that stuff was signed before entering our whatevers, how can we
verify the signature when pulling it out? This question may entirely
invalidate assumptions that nobody ever actually made about somebody
else's theoretical wiping policy!
Not to stretch this metaphor too far, but I believe that the assertion
that people care whether mail inbound to MLMs was signed remains utterly
unsupported.
I support it, in the context of supporting the "transient trust" use case (aka
the A-R approach).
Give the IETF's traditions, the usual way to show that you care about
something is to write the code to do it.
So if you don't write code for senders you aren't allowed to express an opinion
about sender policy? That's just silly. We are all stakeholders in this
ecosystem and we all have a right to our opinion and perspective, regardless of
how we engage/influence the Internet Mail ecosystem.
For the lists I run, I've
modified MJ2 to put a signature on outgoing mail with the list's domain
and a private field to say which list it was. I can't say I've seen any
improvement in delivery which was already close to 100%, but it certainly
hasn't hurt anything and it's made it easier to process Yahoo FBLs.
That's one of the reasons I'd want a list BCP to tell lists to sign their
mail; I've tried it, albeit at small scale, and it works. We know from
reports that at least one MTA misimplements ADSP to reject on discardable
failures, which suggests that a robust MLM should be prepared to deal with
that, most simply by pre-discarding anything that might cause that
problem. I haven't implemented that because, so far at least, none of my
susbcribers appear to use ADSP so it's pretty low on my list of things to
worry about.
Based on recent correspondence, it appears that one of the most vehement
advocates of modifying MLMs to work around ADSP and to pass through info
to retroactively check contributor signatures hadn't noticed that I put
S/MIME signatures on my list mail and that even though it adds a footer to
each message, Mailman passes the signatures through so his MUA can verify
them. Care? Get real.
You lost me.
R's,
John
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