[ietf-dkim] Keys vs. Reputation

J.D. Falk jdfalk at yahoo-inc.com
Mon Aug 21 17:13:45 PDT 2006


On 2006-08-21 14:15, Dave Crocker wrote:

> It is even more important that we carefully distinguish between internal
> operational policies, versus the information that a signer must make public.

+1

  [ . . . ]
> If the signer wants to have assessment be based on different reputations, such
> as for messages authored by different customers of the signer or messages
> authored by different departments in the signer's organization, then the signer
> needs to use different d= values.
  [ . . . ]
> In other words, the job of DKIM is to deliver a valid identity to an assessment
> mechanism.

Makes sense to me, though I suspect we'll need to repeat this a few 
times before everyone groks it.

> How the assessment service decides to use different names is a matter that falls
> under reputation and accreditation.  My reading of the charter says that that is
> out of scope.

+1

Keep it simple.

-- 
J.D. Falk, Anti-Spam Product Manager
Yahoo! Communications Platform Team


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