[ietf-dkim] Use of DKIM signatures by mailing lists

[Steve Atkins]

On Jun 14, 2006, at 2:26 PM, J.D. Falk wrote:

> On 2006-06-14 14:04, Jim Fenton wrote:
>
>> The intent here was to present some thinking on how and why DKIM  
>> might
>> be used by mailing lists.  It does not impact the -base specification
>> other than, hopefully, to show that what's in -base is sufficient for
>> mailing list usage.  Some of this might be appropriate for the "DKIM
>> Overview Document" when we get to it.
>
> It might be worthwhile to define "mailing list" in the document --  
> all of us here on this mailing list surely must know what the term  
> means, but the wider audience may assume it's about marketing and  
> become extremely confused.

Mailing-list is a very broad term. Some of this is applicable to
general mailing lists, but it seems that most of it was written
with "discussion lists" in mind. Defining "mailing list" to mean
the same thing as "discussion list" for this document might
increase confusion rather than reduce it.

Cheers,
   Steve