[ietf-dkim] requirement for one ADSP record per DNS entry makes ADSP undeployable

Eliot Lear lear at cisco.com
Tue May 27 05:23:55 PDT 2008


Frank Ellermann wrote:
> Eliot Lear wrote:
>
>   
>> an author domain administrator cannot adequately or easily express
>> the simple notion that only certain hosts are authorized to send
>> from a domain.  We have thus missed the mark on what we are doing.
>>     
>
> IMO "we" (TINW) are *not* reinventing SPF (or PRA a.k.a. Sender ID).
>
> The admin knows which domains are used for mail, in your example of
> a non-trivial organization these domains have MX records.  Just add
> _adsp._domainkey.example.com for each example.com with an MX record.

The problem is when there are hundreds or thousands of hosts beneath 
example.com.  How many commercial DNS management systems can handle that 
from a provisioning point of view?

Eliot


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