----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Paul Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>> If MUAs are not supposed to be validating messages, then we 
>> need to change the -base spec in many places.
> 
> You can't have both ways: either signatures are valid essentially
> forever -- which is what would be required for MUA's to reliably
> validate signatures -- or they aren't. MUA's that happen to be
> able to read the message within "transport" time are perfectly at
> liberty to validate messages -- no restrictions at all. But that's
> a much different proposition than saying that they will be able to
> validate them whenever they get around to reading them. That is not
> the problem we set off trying to solve.


You can have it both ways with the proposed change to 
use the message reception time:

  dynamic verification -> msg reception time = current time
  delayed verification -> msg reception time = 2822.Received: time

This resolves the question on whether the expiration tag may be used to
invalidate an already stored message based on the current time.

See 

http://mipassoc.org/pipermail/ietf-dkim/2006q2/003134.html

-- 
Hector Santos, Santronics Software, Inc.
http://www.santronics.com

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