> > > In the current Internet Mail environment a mail receiver can never be > > > sure whether a piece of mail was from the purported author they > > > normally associate with the claimed identity. This leads to many > > > avenues of abuse. > > > A secondary goal of DKIM is to validate a standard identity field, > > > such as RFC2822.From or RFC2822.Sender. > > Stating this as a secondary goal appears to contradict the earlier > > paragraph. I.e. The earlier paragraph implies that validating > > RFC2822.From or RFC2822.Sender would be a primary goal. > > I agree.
Well, a coherent and not-contradictory thought was driving my writing, but Heisenberg got in the way. The intended thought was that having ANY accountable entity -- where the accountability is meaningful -- improves the likely validity of the other identity fields. So, no, I had not intended to make direct validation of From or Sender a primary goal. d/ --- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net _______________________________________________ ietf-dkim mailing list [email protected] http://mipassoc.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-dkim
