[ietf-dkim] ADSP Informative Note on parent domain signing

Jim Fenton fenton at cisco.com
Tue Apr 21 18:41:35 PDT 2009


Barry Leiba wrote:
> This discussion seems to have settled down, but I don't see a clear
> consensus on it.  Let's take a little poll, then, on this thread.  No
> further discussion, for now, just the poll, and please don't assume
> that silence means anything.
>
> Post to this thread, one of the following:
>
> "Include the informative note."
> "Do not include the informative note."
> "I don't care [or I have no opinion] either way."
>   

Just to clarify the version of the Informative Note that I believe is
"in play" at this point, it should be the one that's based on Ellen
Siegel's wording:

> Informative Note:  DKIM signatures by parent domains as described in  
> section 3.8 of [RFC4871] (in which a signer uses "i=" to assert that  
> it is signing for a subdomain) do not satisfy the requirements for  
> an Author Domain Signature as defined above.
-Jim



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