[ietf-dkim] draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-02 review

[Scott Kitterman]

"John Levine" <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

>>It's not clear to me that there's consensus that anything qualifies as Best 
>>Current.  We have some small samples of a few things that some people have 
>>tried, but I don't sense we're there yet.
>
>I hope that lists signing their outbound mail qualifies.  Large
>providers Googlegroups and Yahoogroups do it, small providers
>including MAAWG and myself also do.
>
>Beyond that, you're right, we're at best guessing and at worst pulling
>stuff out of our whatevers.
>
Which brings us back to the question of the value of the DKIM working group writing an RFC that suggests people should sign mail.  I don't think it has much.

I think an experimental document that amounts to something like "We've thought about this a lot and discussed it and collectively we've got NFC yet what's best yet. Here are some ideas ..." is what's most needed.

Scott K