Steve Atkins wrote:

> Not only does hatstand.beartrap.blighty.com not resolve, it's not
> registered anywhere. It exists solely as a substring of the string
> that's actually queried -
> banjo.aardvark._domainkey.hatstand.beartrap.blighty.com
>
> The only thing that can be said about the SDID in DNS terms is that
> the signer of the mail has the ability to add TXT records in the
> subtree rooted at that domain.
>
> Given that, trying to make more specific statements about what the
> SDID is than something vague like "a domain name" is likely to lead to
> something that's misleading or plain wrong.
>
> -1 on "registered" or "resolvable".

Sounds like the real requirement is that a DKIM verifier be able to figure 
out which key to use, based on that string.  There must be an IETF standard 
way to describe that....

-- 
J.D. Falk
Return Path Inc
http://www.returnpath.net/
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