I believe this thread has moved to "dmarc", so "arc-discuss" has been
removed.

Roland Turner writes:

 > > (as mentioned below under "authenticated identity"). The biggest 
 > > problem with that, is whether anyone should trust such purported 
 > > authentication claims.
 > 
 > Sure, but that's _*exactly*_ the same problem as trusting ARC 
 > forwarders' claims in the first place.

In a particular formal sense, perhaps.  But an ARC assertion is an
assertion that certain data have been *validated*.  An originator
assertion is an assertion that certain data is *authentic*.  The
assertions are different in *kind*, and therefore the trust decision
is a different problem (requires different data and balances different
risks).  ARC doesn't help with authenticity, as you yourself have been
at pains to explain.  Trying to stretch it to do so is a bad idea (at
least from the point of view of mailing list owners).

 > Failure to support independent origination explicitly (I've
 > suggested cv=I to the same end previously) invites ad hoc
 > arrangements,

That may be true, but IMO it's out of scope for ARC.  It should be
done in DKIM or DMARC.  ARC currently is very easy to interpret: a
third party asserts that it validated some data provided by an earlier
party in the chain (possibly but not always the originator).  Let's
not muddy it with assertions that belong to an originator protocol.

Steve

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