Orbitz might not care about the security issues raised by allowing doubleclick 
to sign messages on behalf of their CEO and other executives. Many others will.

This is a security area spec, least privilege must apply wherever possible.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John L
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 6:18 PM
> To: DKIM List
> Subject: [ietf-dkim] Delegated signatures in real life
> 
> Here's the headers from a message that Doubleclick just sent 
> to my Yahoo account on behalf of Orbitz.  Note that the From: 
> address and DK signature are in email.orbitz.com, even though 
> it was sent by Doubleclick from a Doubleclick IP.  Yahoo 
> thoughfully displayed a little now saying that the DK 
> signature was good when I looked at the message.  I also 
> include the key record, retrieved from Doubleclick's name servers.
> 
> Senders already use NS delegation to let third parties put on 
> first party DK signatures.  It works.  It's popular.  There 
> is no need to invent another way to solve this solved problem.
> 
> Regards,
> John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The 
> Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, 
> http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, 
> please", said Tom, revealingly.
> 
> 
> X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via 206.190.38.154; Tue, 
> 29 Aug 2006 07:42:48 -0700
> X-Originating-IP: [198.31.62.19]
> Authentication-Results: mta162.mail.mud.yahoo.com
>    from=email.orbitz.com; domainkeys=pass (ok)
> Received: from 198.31.62.19  (EHLO mta.email.orbitz.com) 
> (198.31.62.19)
>    by mta162.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 
> 07:40:52 -0700
> DomainKey-Signature: s=dk; d=email.orbitz.com; c=nofws; 
> q=dns; 
> b=nUvGhBPdC8bKVo8E/nLbHWcPJE7mFu83ePkSkmcE91EYdNUb7Wl4emekvK3t
> kHzRCu1u94C7oWy5xX/HOjRBOkudiRdnWaTMkZmHypYllnuyUX71y7WhkeojckSbInn6;
> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:40:32 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Orbitz"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Joe, Sale Ending & Rochester Flights from $142 r/t
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Length: 6278
> 
> (look for the key record)
> 
> $ dig dk._domainkey.email.orbitz.com txt
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> dk._domainkey.email.orbitz.com txt ;; 
> global options:  printcmd ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23293 ;; 
> flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;dk._domainkey.email.orbitz.com.        IN      TXT
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> dk._domainkey.email.orbitz.com. 21600 IN TXT    
> "p=MHwwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADawAwaAJhALdLXrYpY2RRUPHr6ph9jVnrFAY
> vyNjEgGVRmxjiu2EUBEyQDKFOSiDzS00xN/HaIt5IknLJumgu/YdaHhHAgsnnO
> RUV1JwDcOZ3Xo3Iz9cT3ojg4us6SpQhl01dVGS6dwIDAQAB\;"
> 
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