Hector Santos wrote:
> Jim Fenton wrote:
>
>> Jon Callas wrote:
> >>
>>> In short -- saying "I sign everything" with a non-existent or bogus 
>>> key is the same thing as saying, "You'll never see a valid one of 
>>> these."
>>
>> But I agree with this statement, which I think is your main point.
>
> Sure, but unless I am missing a changing of philosophy, this goes
> against DKIM-BASE "ignore failures" design.
>
> I was under the impression, the whole point of the SSP layer is to
> give DKIM domains and verifiers some authority to handle the DKIM
> signature expectation violations.
>
> Is that what we want? change the semantics of DKIM-BASE?

No, this doesn't change the semantics of DKIM-BASE.  The DKIM-Base
"ignore failures" philosophy is basically "an invalid signature is
exactly the same as no signature at all:  no better and no worse."  What
we're talking about is how the missing/invalid signature case is handled.

-Jim
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