[ietf-dkim] A funny thing happened at RSA...

[Powers, Jot]

On 4/11/08 2:05 PM, "Dave Crocker" <dhc at dcrocker.net> scribbled:
 
> Jim Fenton wrote:
>> He said that Yahoo! had blocked 50 million messages allegedly from
>> paypal.com as a result of the lack of a signature.
> 
> 
> Can Yahoo! or Paypal comment on whether the protection is for specific, names
> or 
> whether it is by sub-tree?

I guess that might mean me.  I was not involved in the negotiations of the
agreement, but it is my understanding that it is for specific names.

Now, I believe that includes *.paypal.com
After that it gets ugly with international domains being handled
individually, but generally being *.paypal.whatever

It might be limited to some value for the splat, the reports we get show
a small number of matches.

(The same holds true for eBay as well as some of the other companies that
eBay, Inc controlls).

> How does Yahoo! know the list of domain names to treat as belonging to paypal?

We talked, and agreed.

> With respect to sub-trees is that written into the bilateral agreement or is
> there a way of signaling it?

There are no technical solutions.  I.e., ADSP was not implemented in some
secret way.  We handle that going forward by communication (i.e.
backchannel)

-Jot "not official company spokesman" Powers
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