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Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposal: Removal of AUID (i= tag/value)

2011-04-01 13:34:40
On 03/31/2011 02:33 PM, Jim Fenton wrote:
The direction of the DKIM specifications since RFC 4871 have been to
rely less and less on the AUID (agent or user identifier, the i= value
on the signature) to the point that it provides no security benefit.
   

The working group was bamboozled into the false dilemma
that DKIM had to produce a singular "output". It has all
gone down hill from there. Things that use heuristics like
spam filters thrive with more information, and suffer with
less. So we've destroyed information in the name of aesthetics
while the main consumers of the output thrive on the messy
details.

Mike
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