Fwd: Re: [ietf-dkim] Introducing myself

[Dave Crocker]

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Charles Lindsey wrote:
> DKIM will have no effect on the present spam/phishing/malware scene 
> unless it is widely adopted. It will not be widely adopted unless it is 
> seen to be robust. In particular, it will not be adopted in countries 
> (esp those in Asia) where the character sets used are totally unlike 
> ASCII if it can only be made to work by forcing everything to be sent as 
> 7bit. They just cannot survive in an environment where textual messages 
> 'on the wire' cannot easily be read in that form. They will just resort 
> to "send 8bits anyway" which is already happening, even with headers, to 
> a large extent, because 99.9% of the time it actually works like that 
> without problem.
> 
> That is why the parallel EAI effort has been mentined so often in these 
> discussions, because it is pulling in exactly the opposite direction to 
> this WG, and it is the Chinese and the Japanese who are pulling the 
> hardest.


 From what I have seen, doing a basic web search on your history, you've been 
around and done a lot.

That said, I'm curious about the basis for your firm certitude about what the 
adoption barriers/requirements are for Internet mechanisms.

Just to be clear:  No one disputes the need for supporting a full range of 
characters.  But no one with experience also denies that it is a difficult problem.

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net