ietf-dkim
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [ietf-dkim] DKIM Japan has been set up

2010-11-22 03:59:46
Hi Tsuneki,
first of all, since I write, let me make my welcome-on-list explicit!

On 22/Nov/10 03:43, Tsuneki Ohnishi wrote:
Senders in dkim.jp are committed to attach DKIM signature
withing 6 months, and possibly ready to write their ADSP
"discardable". Since we have major ISPs on our member list
and they are very willing to discard unveryfied emails,
no surprise about it :-), we are trying to inch up to the
level where all domestic emails are signed and verified.

I hope you'll get replies more qualified than mine...
FWIW, I suggest you do not use ADSP that way.

But there is a small problem. It is rather political.
We have a telecommunication law that allows ISPs to discard
forged email, but our Ministry so far does not acknowledge
that failure of DKIM verification immediately equals to 
forgery, because there could be other reasons to fail.

IMHO, your Ministry is correct.

We can fight about it taking time to get through to dull
Japanese bureaucracy, but I think there is a faster way.
It is to let senders to have an option to declare that
if there is no DKIM signature at all, verifiers can discard
those messages. Then we can shut their mouths insisting
there could be other reasons.

As an alternative, it is the recipients who may eventually decide they
are not interested in receiving unsigned contributions to their
inboxes, unless they have other means to identify those messages.
IMHO, such decision should be made by each recipient individually.
_______________________________________________
NOTE WELL: This list operates according to 
http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html