[ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

[Dave CROCKER]

This raise a specific and interesting technical point.  I haven't seen a 
response so far, so...


On 1/10/2011 3:07 AM, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> I think keys should be able to be based on things other than domain names.
> Names of netnews newgroups in one obvious exception, but there may be many
> situations where the entity claiming authority to certify some document
> may have no obvious relation to a domain.


The core of this technology has keys that are named and accessed in terms of 
domain names.  It really is fundamental to this technical approach.

It might be possible to define something using another naming and accessing 
scheme but it was be a significantly different technical base, IMO.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
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