Murray S. Kucherawy writes:

 > Interesting.  So DKIM-Delegate is syntactically the same as DKIM-Signature,
 > but with augmented semantics?  Or did you have something else in mind?

That's what I had in mind.  But the semantics are not merely
augmented, they're conceptually different.  DKIM-Delegate attests only
to the authenticity of the delegate list, not to the content of the
message.

It occurs to me that that means that in the case of use of an explicit
delegate list, the DKIM-Delegate field needs to contain a signature
for itself.  Not a conceptual problem AFAIK, but the creation and
verification of the field get fussy.

I think that in general use of an explicit delegate list should be
recommended, and that where the Originator can identify lists with
good reputations, it should restrict to them rather than allow random
mailboxes.  I'm not sure how to make precise enough to go into the
I-D, though.

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