> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:ietf-dkim-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of John R. Levine
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 5:22 PM
> To: Barry Leiba
> Cc: DKIM List
> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] chained signatures, was l= summary
> 
> >> DKIM is too complicated as it is, and it strikes me as an extremely
> poor
> >> idea to add yet more cruft to work around perverse situations that
are
> as
> >> yet (and probably always) entirely hypothetical.
> >
> > I don't understand what "cruft" you think I'm talking about.
> 
> Telling people that it is reasonable to add a chain of A-R headers to
> messages with broken signatures, and expecting recipients to apply
some
> ill defined algorithm to decide how much they believe each level of
> alleged signature.
> 
> I would really like to remove l= from DKIM to make it clear that it is
not
> a good idea to even try to guess the history of a message based on
> signatures that don't verify and cover the whole messag.
> 
> R's,
> John
>

+1

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