"John R Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Yes, and if there were a proposal for standardizing something that
>> depended on solving World Hunger first, I would be skeptical of
>> that too.
>
> Since the people I know involved with DKIM expect it to be plenty useful
> without third party reputation services, I'm not sure what your point is.

Well, they may expect it to be, but I haven't heard any arguments
along those lines that I find convincing.


> Demanding reputation systems for DKIM is approximately like saying that
> SMTP depends on solving the problem of getting mail into users' mailboxes.
> Every SMTP server has to have a way to get the mail into the mailboxes,
> but we've been getting by without a standard way to do it for 25 years and
> SMTP seems to be usable anyway.

I generally find arguments by analogy fairly unconvincing.
This is one such argument.

-Ekr
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