Christ.  I'd support Steve Atkins when he suggests entirely gutting
this spec to remove half the alphabet, retaining just d= and one or
two others (i= with caveats, t= I dare say)?

suresh

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Dave CROCKER <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> [email protected] wrote:
>> Been trying to avoid it but .... my understanding was that i=author d=signer
>> i=foobar.coxhosted.com d=dkim.signer.coxmail.com and that was how 3rd party
>> signing was going to work
>
>
> 1. the spec does not say that i= author.
>
> 2. a requirement that i=author renders DKIM useless for signing by any agent 
> in
> the sequence other than the author's.  This goes entirely against the usage
> flexibility that has (always) been a goal of DKIM.
>
> d/
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>   Dave Crocker
>   Brandenburg InternetWorking
>   bbiw.net
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