On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 22:56 -0600, Arvel Hathcock wrote: > > Requiring an email-address owner > > Doug, I'm not convinced there is such a thing as an "email-address owner" to > which you often refer. I don't think I know any "email-address owners". I > know plenty of "domain owners" though. Many of those choose to partition > out email access to their domain using a concept known as a "mailbox" to > which an "email-address" serves as a pointer. In a lot of cases, those > pointers are assigned to people for their use. But they don't own them and > aren't entitled to them. Email address use exists at the pleasure of and > according to the policies of the domain owner and noone else. Those who > believe they own their email address will find out different when they lose > their job or stop paying their ISP for service. Should I ask Yahoo if I own > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I argue that I needn't comply with their usage > restrictions because I "own" [EMAIL PROTECTED] and can do with it as I > please?
By email-address owner I was attempting to draw a distinction between the domain owner running the email server from the domain owner establishing email-addresses. The email-address owner often employs the services of the domain owner running the email server. For DKIM, this distinction could be seen by a different domain signing the message from the domain of the email-address. It could be said each own their domain. Perhaps I should keep saying email-address domain owner. -Doug _______________________________________________ ietf-dkim mailing list http://dkim.org
