[ietf-dkim] Review of DKIM Sender Signing Practices (draft-ietf-dkim-ssp-01)

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday 03 December 2007 23:23, John Levine wrote:
> In article <47549320.9000307 at dcrocker.net> you write:
> >    Review of:
> >
> >      DKIM Sender Signing Practices  (draft-ietf-dkim-ssp-01)
>
> Wow, thanks for a very thorough review.
>
> The biggest problem with this draft is that it goes way beyond
> defining a protocol.
>
> Part of it describes the way that senders publish statements about
> their sending practices and the way that receivers can look for those
> statements, which is fine, but the rest attempts to tell receivers
> what to do with mail they have received, which is not.
>
> It really needs to back up and define how a sender publishes its
> policy, how a recipient can look up a policy if it wants to do so,
> then stop.  That's all they need to interoperate.
>
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While senders certainly can't dictate receiver policy, giving an indication of 
what they expect to have happen is perfectly reasonable and reduces 
uncertainty.

Scott K