[ietf-dkim] DKIM charter

[Hector Santos]

Sounds more like consensus through elimination!

Always works.

-- 
Hector Santos, Santronics Software, Inc.
http://www.santronics.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william at elan.net>
To: "Tony Hansen" <tony at att.com>
Cc: "IETF DKIM WG" <ietf-dkim at mipassoc.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] DKIM charter


> 
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Tony Hansen wrote:
> 
> > To get past the contentions around SSP, I'm wondering if we should
> > change the wording slightly, as follows.
> >
> > Tony Hansen
> > tony at att.com
> >

> > Barry Leiba wrote:
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> DRAFT IETF WORKING GROUP CHARTER
> >> 8 Nov 2005
> >>
> >>
> >> Domain Keys Identified Message (DKIM)
> >>
> >> DESCRIPTION OF WORKING GROUP:
> >>
> >> The Internet mail protocols and infrastructure allow mail sent from
> >> one domain to purport to be from another. While there are sometimes
> >> legitimate reasons for doing this, it has become a source of general
> >> confusion, as well as a mechanism for fraud and for distribution of
> >> spam (when done illegitimately, it's called "spoofing"). The DKIM
> >> working group will produce standards-track specifications that allow
> >> a domain to take responsibility, using digital signatures, for having
> >> taken part in the transmission of an email message and to publish
> >
> > possibly to publish
> 
> optionally to publish
> 
> - But I dont think this change makes any difference as far as what those 
> for and against policy records are saying about it.
> 
> >> "policy" information about how it applies those signatures. Taken
> >> together, these will assist receiving domains in detecting (or ruling
> >> out) certain forms of spoofing as it pertains to the signing domain.
> 
> "certain forms of spoofing" - very vague
> 
> -- 
> William Leibzon
> Elan Networks
> william at elan.net
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