On 19 Aug 2005 16:14:06 -0000, John Levine wrote: > > A third-party signature is a lot weaker assertion than an OA signature, > > unless you know something about the third party. > > Seems to me that no signature is useful unless you know something about the > signing party.
That nicely summarizes the problem I have with the fixation of *requiring* a tie-in to the origination domain. It's not that the tie-in does not provide incremental benefit. It is that it is incremental, rather than fundamental. Today we have no confirmable domain name identity to assess. With the DKIM basic mechanism, we do. That's not a small improvement in the world. > DKIM will be useful in the short run because we all have quite a lot of > knowledge about domains with which we exchange a lot of mail, and that lets > us get their mail out of the filtering path. Exactly. d/ --- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net _______________________________________________ ietf-dkim mailing list http://dkim.org
