[ietf-dkim] auth header in Montreal agenda, other than base

[Jim Fenton]

John R Levine wrote:
>>> Question (not a suggestion): why is draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header
>>> not on that list? ...
>>>       
>
>   
>> Well, it's not in our charter, but assuming that the -base discussion
>> doesn't take up the entire agenda it seems worthwhile socializing it
>> in a pre-re-charter kind of way. I'll note that Auth-res is pretty
>> intertwinned with SSP as well.
>>     
>
> I hope we can get it un-twined.  The most likely use of the auth
> header is so that an MTA can pass along the DKIM info to a MUA that is
> one or two hops downstream for sorting.  That shouldn't need to have
> anything to do with SSP.
>   
It doesn't have much to do with SSP, and I don't see the two as being
intertwined.  Absent SSP, Auth-res can only report "pass" or "neutral";
with SSP, it can under some circumstances also report "fail".  I don't
see that as impacting the design of Auth-Res.

-Jim

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