On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 03:26 +0200, Frank Ellermann wrote:
> Douglas Otis wrote:
>  
> > DNS encodes about 40 code points
> 
> More like 230 octets if you treat US ASCII case insensitive.

This was in reference to scalar values of a character.  DNS case
insensitivity limits resolving an encoded local-part, especially when
the local-part is not ASCII, or perhaps includes subaddress symbols.


> IMO this SSP draft has more serious problems.  RFC 2822 etc.
> clearly allow PRA != From, a "policy" or "practises" trying
> to "forbid" RFC 2822 just makes no sense.

The current policy strategy is limited to a small segment of domains.
This segment is willing to endure delivery failures to ensure their
2822.From address is always signed by the same domain.  Some moderation
of delivery failures might be achieved by indicating adherence has not
been strict. 


> Let's build on RFC 4407 or drop SSP.  What is the precise
> Message-ID where one of the Chairs stated that it's the
> consensus of this WG to rename "policy" to "practises" ?

If I recall correctly, this took place before the chartering of the WG.

Due to potential replay issues, do not expect policy based criteria to
offer effective deterrents, except within an even smaller segment of
domains.  Working with large financial organizations, even the 2822.From
address being within the signing domain is not enough, there is also a
desire to further limit the resulting annotations.

With ether the perspective of an annotation or a policy based acceptance
standpoint, DKIM does not fully meet the needs of even a small segment
of domains.  Limiting annotations is not well accommodated by i=
semantics.  In addition, the i= parameter can not associate addresses
above or outside the signing domain.

Without policy associating signing domains with that of the SMTP client
or the 2821.MAIL_FROM, handling replay issues may prove problematic.
Ensuring DSNs, J.D. alluded to an expectation that the 2821.MAIL_FROM
would be the same as that of the signing domain.  This relationship is
not expressed within any DKIM related policy however.

By being able to associate the signing domain with that of other
domains, the DKIM signature offers greater value.  This association is
fully independent of the DKIM signature verification.

-Doug




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