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

Douglas Otis dotis at mail-abuse.org
Fri Jun 16 14:41:31 PDT 2006


On Jun 16, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:

>
>
> John R Levine wrote:
>>> 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.
>
>
> +1

Agreed.  A results header would be independent of DKIM.  There may be  
some general considerations in a BCP paper about the impact of  
signing these types of headers.

-Doug


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