DRAFT IETF WORKING GROUP CHARTER  
 22 Aug 2005 0932


 Domain Keys Identified Message (DKIM)


 CHAIRS: 
      TBD
 AREA DIRECTORS: 
      Russell Housley, Sam Hartman
 AREA ADVISOR: 
      Russell Housley <housley(_at_)vigilsec(_dot_)com>
 MAILING LISTS: 
     General Discussion: ietf-dkim(_at_)mipassoc(_dot_)org
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     Archive: http://mipassoc.org/pipermail/ietf-dkim/

 DESCRIPTION OF WORKING GROUP:

 Forgery of headers that indicate message origin is a problem for users of
 Internet mail. The DKIM working group will produce standards-track 
 specifications that permit authentication of message headers during transit, 
 using public-key signatures and based on domain name identifiers. Keys will 
 be stored in the responsible identity's DNS hierarchy. The specification will 
 be based on the draft-allman-dkim-*.txt Internet-Drafts. The working group 
 will make only the minimal changes deemed useful to improve the viability 
 of services that are based on these specifications. The specifications will 
 contain summaries of the threats, requirements and limitations that are 
 associated with the specified mechanism. The DKIM working group will also 
 address mechanisms for advertising "signing policy" so that a recipient can 
 determine whether a valid message signature should be present.

 The working group will NOT consider related topics, such as reputation and
 accreditation systems, and message encryption.  It will also NOT
 consider signatures which are intended to make long-term assertions
 (beyond the expected transit time of a message) nor signatures which
 attempt to make strong assertions of the identity of the message
 author.

 The working group may also study whether to adopt a work item for specifying
 a common mechanism to communicate the results of message verification to the
 message recipient.  


 GOALS AND MILESTONES:

  7/05     Issue initial Internet-Draft[s] of signature specification
 10/05     Submit to IESG - for DKIM threats and requirements
  2/06     Submit to IESG - DKIM signature specification
  2/06     Submit to IESG - DKIM public key Resource Record
  5/06     Submit to IESG - DKIM policy specification