On Sunday, April 20, 2014 9:00 PM, Hector Santos wrote:

> This would be a simple first step consideration -- A new ATPS tag

this may fix DKIM 3rd party support, but does little to support
3rd party SPF. i think it's important to have a fix for all
underlying mechanisms, not just some of them.

considering DMARC may include additional underlying mechanism in
the future, a fix for 3rd party needs to be DMARC-based, not
based on whatever underlying mechanisms are included in DMARC
instead, imo. if we start fixing underlying mechanisms just to
have them DMARC-imposed alignment requirement compatible,
we are introducing new griefs to be dealt with in the future,
and adding bunch of incompatibilities with legacy support for
those protocols. so, whoever supports DMARC will have to add
support for all those new extensions and additional protocols
which may be more than what they are willing to do, opting for
just ignoring DMARC completely.

also, such path simply creates more resource usage, especially on
DNS, cause all those extensions have their DNS checks, and
sometimes more than one. also, more protocols, more libraries
running on server, fighting for resources...

why should we go that line, when it's easier to build a DMARC-based
support for 3rd party and fix the problem at the source?


> atps=0  default, extension disabled allowed backward compatibility.
> atps=1  Valid alignment allows a valid 3rd party signature (no checks).

this is similar to specifying adkim=n, the way Tomki Camp already
suggested, which i like better instead, since it's DMARC-based.


> atps=2  Valid alignment allows a valid 3rd party signature with ATPS
> (Authorized 3rd Party Signer) checking, RFC6541.

a receiver wishing to support ATPS can account for it during processing
DMARC, without any change in DMARC itself.

however, i'm quite sure everybody would be much more happy with a
single working protocol, instead of bunch of extensions.


> atps=3  Valid alignment allows a valid 3rd party signature using
> the May-Resign header method.

which is what exactly? i guess something similar to adkim=s:yahoo.com,
which i proposed already, but if u would like to continue lobbying for
this idea, please elaborate and provide examples.


in any case, i would like to see what benefits these solutions have
over other suggested proposals, like those suggested by
Joseph Humphreys, Tomski Camp and me, all of which tend to fix
DMARC, and not introduce requirements for additional extensions to
underlying protocols.

i can see many cons with ATPS-path while comparing the two principally
different ideas.

DMARC was created as a solution for a problem a bunch of other
extensions tried covering before already. all about failing.

we could skip that broken-path with DMARC today, since it's still in
development, and simply add 3rd party support to its base. i see
no issue with the idea of authorised alignment. it's natural to the
way email works. with some thinking, i'm sure we can make it work
for mailing lists too.

this is how i read J. Trent Adams' last post.


-- 
Vlatko Salaj aka goodone
http://goodone.tk

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