[ietf-dkim] The (really) latest SSP draft

Stephen Farrell stephen.farrell at cs.tcd.ie
Fri Sep 28 03:49:28 PDT 2007



Jim Fenton wrote:
> The most significant change is a new tag, called "handling", that
> represents what I called the SSP "Strong" Option in my presentation at
> IETF 69.  As I mentioned at the time, we needed a better word than
> "strong", and this is what Eric and I came up with.  It takes one of two
> values:  "process", the default, means to do what you would normally do
> with a message that is Suspicious.  "block" is a way for a domain to
> express the preference that messages violating SSP be dealt with more
> harshly, such as by deleting, bouncing, or rejecting them.

I guess this isn't something that's explicitly covered in the
requirements draft, so I think we need to see if folks want the feature
supported or not. (Thanks for highlighting it Jim.)

So, do we want to allow ssp statements to say "handling=block" or
some equivalent?

S.




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