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[ietf-dkim] Question: ADSP DKIM=UNKNOWN and A-R reporting

2011-05-03 08:31:53
RFC5617 has for this tag value:

    dkim=   Outbound Signing Practices for the domain (plain-text;
            REQUIRED).  Possible values are as follows:

            unknown   The domain might sign some or all email.

For my A-R reporting if there an explicit DKIM=UNKNOWN record, I took 
this declaration to mean the domain only allows it to sign sometimes 
and no one else.
There is no failure handling semantics unlike DKIM=DISCARDABLE, so no 
verifier action is done other than A-R record it.

For example, this is such a reporting for a list message posted here 
by Alessandro with its tana.it domain.

Authentication-Results: dkim.winserver.com;
  dkim=pass header.i=mipassoc.org header.d=mipassoc.org header.s=k00001;
  adsp=fail policy=unknown author.d=tana.it signer.d=mipassoc.org 
(unauthorized signer);

The "(unauthorized signer)" was added because it was an explicit 
DKIM=UKKNOWN DNS record declaration.

If there was no ADSP record, the adsp= info would look like this:

  adsp=none author.d=tana.it signer.d=mipassoc.org;

Would that be a reasonable valid A-R reporting for ADSP based on my 
interpretation of explicit vs implicit DKIM=UNKNOWN setting?

Of course, it should been labeled as DKIM=OPTIONAL because if someone 
went to extent to declare a record, it wouldn't be unknown what he 
intended.


-- 
Hector Santos, CTO
http://www.santronics.com
http://santronics.blogspot.com


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