----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Andrews" <marka(_at_)isc(_dot_)org>
To: "John R Levine" <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com>
Cc: "Christian Huitema" <huitema(_at_)microsoft(_dot_)com>; "IETF Discussion
Mailing List" <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 11:28 PM
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<alpine(_dot_)OSX(_dot_)2(_dot_)11(_dot_)1510271801250(_dot_)34501(_at_)ary(_dot_)lan>,
"John R
Levine" write
s:
Actually we need to validate two assertions:
* That the mail came from the stated author, e.g. PHB.
* That the mail was relayed by the IETF mailing list.
Well, yes, but those are easy. What's hard is demonstrating that
the
message that the list relayed is the same in a semantic sense as the
message that Phill sent, even though it has the kind of changes that
lists
make, a tag in the subject line, a footer at the bottom, and
attachments
stripped.
Perhaps we should not be stripping attachments but encapsulating
the whole message with enough DKIM signed meta data to enable DKIM
processing to work a the far end after DKIM verifying the mailing
list input first. This gives you a trust chain.
Add in List-Label: <string> header to allow the MUA to insert it
into the displayed Subject: and a footer after the encapsulated
message. The latter should work immediately.
If list policy is not to have attachements then reject the
submission rather than strip the attachements.
If list policy is no text/html then reject messages with text/html.
Mark
Now that is a magnificant idea. E-mails are ten times the size they
used to be and, despite Moore's Law and variations thereof, this gives
me problems. Get rid of html and that would reduce the size of many by
a factor of three or more.
And while we are at it, get rid of all the X- e-mail headers that seem
to have no impact on e-mail and that would save a fortune.
This, for me, is the problem with e-mail.
Tom Petch
Mark
See the last decade or so on the DKIM and now DMARC mailing lists
for
endless not very productive discussions about ways to describe
permitted
changes without also allowing vast amounts of spam and phishing,
leavened
by blithe assertions that mailing lists have been doing the wrong
thing
for 40 years and should never make any changes to messages at all.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg
NY
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