Steve Atkins wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:
>
>   
>> The discussion seems to be straying beyond certain useful
>> boundaries... as Stephen says, let's keep it within those.  So, in
>> particular, with my "participant" hat on:
>>
>> It seems to me that the relevant point isn't whether you do or don't
>> like ADSP and whether you will or won't deploy it... but, rather, that
>> we agree on the details of it.  If you're a signer and you don't like
>> ADSP, you won't publish ADSP information.  If you're a verifier and
>> you don't like ADSP, you won't retrieve ADSP information.
>>
>> So what matters is that we agree on what the ADSP information says and
>> means, and that we agree on the interpretation by a verifier of its
>> absence.
>>     
>
> If ADSP assertions put constraints on DKIM use, especially
> if those constraints end up affecting those who don't choose to
> use ADSP, then it's a bit more important than that. (I'm already
> seeing people who can't use DKIM appropriately because they're
> using DKIM signing engines that were were written with one
> limited use case in mind).
>
> I don't know if that is the case. Does anyone else?
>   

ADSP doesn't put any constraints on a signer that doesn't publish an
ADSP record, or that publishes adsp=unknown.

Given the range of non-ADSP applications for the i= value that have been
described, verifiers would be well advised not to use the i= value as a
key to a reputation database.  So while a signer's use of ADSP might
constrain a verifier that wants to key reputation on that value, it's
not a good idea anyway.

-Jim

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