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Re: [ietf-dkim] ADSP stats

2011-04-18 08:03:18
Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
-----Original Message-----

I can break it down by month if anyone's interested in trend 
data, but the numbers are so small in the first place that I 
doubt it'd be very interesting.

So we can't tell how widely ADSP has been deployed because we 
don't check in the positive case, but we can see how it looks 
in the negative case: It's successfully "protecting" 0.13% of 
the domains out there.

Which is still higher than how SPF started out, yet, SPF took off due 
to its high promotion. Since there is no promotion of ADSP, watered 
down, and it was made harder to deal with 3rd party scenarios, with 
the refusal to make the necessary corrections, IMV, the exploration 
has becomes questionable and limited.  We have to promote it if we 
want to properly measure its adoption.

Data collection is always useful, but it generally doesn't tell the 
real story across the board because everyone's personal/business 
community network are different. You have to show a statistic analysis 
because the majority non usage reasons are untold and does not 
necessarily takes away the benefits and the well established proof of 
concept and realistic payoff possible. It is very well proven to be 
useful for those who have these stronger signature needs.

Interestingly, what would be an adoption percentage before it is taken 
serious?

Adoption is really three parts:

  1 [X] Verifier ADSP Implementation Readiness
  2 [_] Verifier ADSP Deployment (checking) Readiness
  3 [_] Domain ADSP declarations

Looking at just current APIs, it is 100% adoption. The current APIs 
readiness is due to when policy was still a strong focus starting with 
SSP and they were updated to support ADSP.  The harm of removing 
policy semantics in RFC4871bis is that we will begin to lose this 
implementation readiness.  Not having any ADID Policy Identity 
Assessor insights dangers future implementations from having this 
readiness.

Deployment Readiness is whether the operators have ADSP checking 
enabled. Because of the short term DNS low efficacy factors, it is a 
high consideration to have it disabled by default. That could change 
as Domain ADSP declarations increased.  But we don't know how 
different implementators have made it available.  Of course, this will 
be an non-issue when implementators stop coding for it or never code 
for it and don't offer it at all - the danger of removing the 
semantics in RFC4871.

-- 
HLS


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