[ietf-dkim] Delegated signatures in real life

Steve Atkins steve at blighty.com
Wed Aug 30 20:50:03 PDT 2006


On Aug 30, 2006, at 8:23 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:13:00 -0500 Arvel Hathcock  
> <arvel.hathcock at altn.com>
> wrote:
>>> It's not a matter of money, but a matter of the complexity of  
>>> dealing
> with
>>> an audience that the first step in the process is you have to  
>>> explain
> what
>>> a DNS service IS and they have very limited time or interest in
>>> understanding.
>>
>> Believe me, I can sympathize with that experience.  However, DKIM- 
>> BASE
> already requires the use of DNS so we've crossed this bridge already
> haven't we?
>>
> Absolutely, but we need to make it as simple and accessible as we can
> reasonably do for this class of user.  Before getting into another
> discussion about what that is, I'm waiting for the requirements -01  
> draft.

I fear we may already be long past "simple and accessible" for most
interesting classes of user.

Cheers,
   Steve



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