[ietf-dkim] Who signs what

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Thu Sep 16 08:00:28 PDT 2010


John R. Levine wrote:
>> here was a (hard won) consensus that a signature by the owner/admin of a 
>> domain carries more weight than the signature of a 3rd party because the 
>> owner/admin of the domain controls the domain and the 3rd party doesn't.
> 
> That's not my recollection, but whatever.
> 
>> Sounds like more of a marketing issue than a technical issue to me.
> 
> Indeed.  If the owner is myobscurelittledomain.com and the signature is 
> from yahoo.com, I know which one I'm likely to pay more attention to.

myobscurelittledomain.com, right? As Miles said in the past, Yahoo would
always have sort of middling reputation.

Mike


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