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Re: [ietf-dkim] [dkim] #11: 2.5 SDID minor nit

2011-04-15 16:54:00
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To: Murray S. Kucherawy
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Subject: [dkim] #11: 2.5 SDID minor nit

#11: 2.5 SDID minor nit

 http://mipassoc.org/pipermail/ietf-dkim/2011q2/015834.html

 In Section 2.5, the text

    identity claiming responsibility for introduction
    of a message into the mail stream.

 seems to be odd and as stated technically untrue.

 Isn't SDID identity the responsible signer?  SDID has no technical
 responsibility for either the creation of the message since it did not
 exist yet, or responsibility for actually adding the message into the
 mail stream.

 Maybe it can be reworded:

    A single domain name that is the mandatory payload output of DKIM and
    that refers to the identity claiming responsibility for the signed
    message introduced into the mail stream.

I think it's redundant to refer to a signed message, since that's what the 
entire document is defining; if the message isn't signed, the document doesn’t 
apply in the first place.

So the question to me is more like: Is an intermediary adding a signature 
generating a new message?

If the answer is "yes", then no change is required.

If the answer is "no", then it seems to me the simplest path is to change 
"identity claiming responsibility for introduction of a message into the mail 
stream" to "identity claiming some responsibility for a message in the mail 
stream".


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