[ietf-dkim] Who signs what

[Steve Atkins]

On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ietf-dkim-bounces at mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-
>> bounces at mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Macdonald
>> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:32 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Who signs what
>> 
>> I don't think there is a consensus on what a 3rd party signature is.
> 
> Oh, I disagree.  As someone (Ian?) pointed out, there's some long-established common use about what the term "third-party" means, and I don't think we need to establish rough consensus on something like that.
> 
> For a message (not even specifically email) from A to B via C, A is the first party, B is the second party, C is the third party.
> 
> The first several definitions I found via a simple Google search concurred.
> 
> Let's not waste time on this.

If that's the case, then we need to stop using the term "third-party signatures" when discussing ADSP, as ADSP does not make any distinction that maps on to the general used meaning of "third-party".

Perhaps we should use the terms "822from domain signature" and "non-822from domain signature" to differentiate between the only two cases of valid signatures that ADSP is concerned with.

Cheers,
  Steve