[ietf-dkim] base-03: Key lookup parameters

[Eric Allman]

The point of passing i= is to allow extension in the future to 
possible per-user keying.  You wouldn't do this in DNS, but another 
protocol should be able to handle it easily.

eric



--On May 31, 2006 2:45:30 PM -0700 Jim Fenton <fenton at cisco.com> 
wrote:

> Section 3.6 gives an abstract definition of a key lookup function,
> which is good in generalizing the description of this process
> beyond the dns/txt representation.  However, it includes i= as a
> parameter in the lookup.  Is there ever a situation where q (lookup
> type), d (domain) and s (selector) aren't sufficient?  I view i
> (the local part, in particular) as something that gets compared
> with the g value in the result, but not a key for the lookup,
> independent of the type of key service used.
>
> -Jim
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