On 9 Dec 2022, at 17:00, Michael Thomas wrote: > On 12/9/22 4:53 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: >> On 12/9/2022 4:41 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: >>> Considering that I was one of three original designers >> >> You worked on Domainkeys? >> >> When Yahoo asked me to be one of their outside reviewers, for their initial >> work, I don't recall your being involved. >> >> This was considerably before there was the first, direct effort to bring >> things to the IETF. >> > Domainkeys and IIM were convergent evolution. IIM was actually published > first. I produced the first DKIM implementation followed by Murray a day or > two later.
DomainKeys and IIM both preceded IETF’s DKIM effort and neither of them is DKIM. The semantics and motivation behind a DKIM signature were determined by IETF consensus when it was standardized, and isn’t necessarily what the semantics and motivation behind a DomainKeys or IIM signature were. _______________________________________________ Ietf-dkim mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-dkim
