I'm sorry, Hector: I can't understand what you're saying in this
message, nor what you want done.

Barry, as chair

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 03:35, Hector Santos <[email protected]> wrote:
>> There is consensus of the working group, as a whole, behind it.  A
>> minority of participants feel that the advice given in the last paragraph
>> of section 1 is all that makes sense, and that the rest of the document
>> isn't needed (see "Working Group Summary" later in this writeup).  Those
>> participants are willing to accept this document, nonetheless, seeing
>> no harm in it.
>
> I was the MLM I-D non-acknowledged person who highlighted the
> interoperability problem with MLM and DKIM (RFC4871) and ADSP (RFC5617 plus
> all other related document.  The Author Domain awareness solutions described
> were my inputs ad outlined in the expired 2006 DSAP I-D.
>
> As described in MLM I-D section 1.1:
>
>   The DKIM signing specification deliberately rejects the notion of
>   tying the signing domain (the "d=" tag in a DKIM signature) to any
>   other identifier within a message; any ADMD that handles a message
>   could sign it, regardless of its origin or author domain.  In
>   particular, DKIM does not define any meaning to the occurrence of a
>   match between the content of a "d=" tag and the value of, for
>   example, a domain name in the RFC5322.From field, nor is there any
>   obvious degraded value to a signature where they do not match.  Since
>   any DKIM signature is merely an assertion of "some" responsibility by
>   an ADMD, a DKIM signature added by an MLM has no more, nor less,
>   meaning than a signature with any other "d=" value.
>
> This must be a PROBLEM statement because the MLM I-D offers solutions to
> deal with protocol definable "obvious" associations declared by the author
> domain.
>
> If there is a consensus to accept this MLM I-D document to address concerns
> with the MLM interoperability problems, then it conflicts with the stated
> non-consensus chair conclusion related to Ticket #25 for RFC4871bis to close
> the issue.
>
> --
> Hector Santos, CTO
> http://www.santronics.com
> http://santronics.blogspot.com
>

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