We already have a field for author, called From. Why add another one? "The only required header fields are the origination date field and the originator address field(s)." By this, RFC 5322 refers to the From field. I think client software developers would be inclined to ignore creating the Author field, or else to create it and populate it with the same value as the From field. Mailing list software might want to create Author and copy the value of From into it, and then insert the list address into the From, but then, they run into "In all cases, the "From:" field SHOULD NOT contain any mailbox that does not belong to the author(s) of the message." No better than where we are now, is it?
-- Joseph Brennan Lead, Email and Systems Applications _______________________________________________ dmarc mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc
