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> -----Original Message----- > From: dane [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Olafur > Gudmundsson > Sent: April-01-15 9:19 AM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [dane] Email box mapping: Who is responsible ? > > Dear Colleagues > > <chair-hat off> > I have been thinking about the issues in finding right email address format > for > a user. > IMHO we need to take a step back and think about responsibilities, and > expectations as well as goals. > > The goal is to create a simple way to find <email key> for a known > correspondent. > Can we assume that the email encryptor knows the address of recipients in a > format emitted by the recipients email system, and is that good enough? > > Can we expect a User mail agent to look up many different form of an email > address just to find an <email key> ? > > Can we expect a Email provider to publish users email key for number of > variants of the users email address? > > There have been mentions of EMAIL oracle, and other methods to find > “canonical address” for user. > > Are there simple rules we can apply to email addresses that decrease the > number of combinations? > For example we can apply lower case rule to the left hand side before > hashing? > > <chair-hat off> > > <char-hat on> > I think we can publish OPENPGPKEY draft as is tagging it as Opportunistic key > lookup, if it has to be labeled EXPERIMENTAL that is fine. > We push the issues of canonical email discovery and techniques to improve > finding keys for random email addresses into the OPENPGPKEY-usage > document as there are things that email receivers can do as well as what > senders can do. > > Comments. > > Olafur > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dane mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dane _______________________________________________ dane mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dane
