[ietf-dkim] RFC2822.Sender

Stephen Farrell stephen.farrell at cs.tcd.ie
Wed Aug 9 14:31:45 PDT 2006


Michael Thomas wrote:
> Tony Hansen wrote:
>> add RFC2822.Sender
>>  
> I'm not the chair, but I've seen considerably less consensus about 
> anything other
> than rfc2822.from. I'm frankly not sure I understand it very well. 

I know I don't understand it!

Maybe a more detailed use-case would help? (Tony?)

> There's of course
> nothing that prevents a receiver from checking SSP for any 
> address/domain it wants
> to, but do we now have a mandate to make assertions about any kind of 
> origination
> address? How do those assertions interact with each other? What does a 
> strong practice
> for ListID and a weak practice for Sender mean if they're in the same 
> message?

All good questions. And maybe not too easy to be confident in
any answers at this stage?

> Finally, is this something that can wait? Ie, are we harmed if we don't 
> do it now?

Again, I dunno. I believe we do have consensus that at least
rfc2822.From needs to be handled now. If more folks want
rfc2822.Sender to be handled now as well, then they should
say so I guess.

S.


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