The Value of Arguing About Reputation (was Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: The Value of Reputation)

[J.D. Falk]

(Reducing distribution to just ietf-dkim)

On 2006-01-03 13:46, Jim Fenton wrote:

> For this reason, I don't think the operation of reputation systems
> themselves should be defined by IETF; different users will have
> different needs.

Trying to define what is intrinsically a social policy using purely 
technological means pretty much always fails -- and generates a lot of 
pointless arguments along the way.

Nobody with any real-world mail operations experience wants a 
not-yet-chartered working group to tell them how or when to apply 
reputation, so any attempt to do so will fail miserably.  But, that 
failure doesn't need to drag DKIM down with it.

Can we just agree that DKIM may be used as an input to site-specific 
reputation systems and MOVE ON already?

-- 
J.D. Falk, Anti-Spam Product Manager
Yahoo! Communications Platform Team