On Sep 13, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Douglas Otis wrote:

>  On 9/13/10 1:03 PM, McDowell, Brett wrote:
>> The ADSP=discardable deployer is not conveying apathy regarding the 
>> deliverability of their mail, quite the opposite IMO.  They are saying (to 
>> paraphrase) "please attempt to verify the DKIM signature on this message 
>> against the key record in our DNS for this domain/subdomain, and if you 
>> cannot verify the signature then please discard the message as a means of 
>> protecting your subscriber from phishing attacks, otherwise please deliver 
>> the message and do so knowing we put this much effort into ensuring the 
>> goodness of the mail before we sent it"
> For MLMs making modifications that invalidate DKIM signatures, posting 
> should be blocked for domains making an ADSP dkim=discardable 
> assertion.  Such an assertion might cause other subscribers to refuse 
> messages from an Author Domain with the discardable assertion and cause 
> delivery and message queuing to be problematic.  Otherwise, those 
> refusing these messages run a risk of being unsubscribed.

That would be an undesired outcome and therefore a "reject" by the MLM would be 
more appropriate (until we have a RFC in place and adopted that enables the 
"transient trust"/"chain of trust" notion I've been advocating for).  And yes, 
I'm going to write one but perhaps only after I work with more mailbox 
providers to implement the notion now.  

> 
> -Doug
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