[mail-vet-discuss] Auth-Results issue #4 method=value values

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

Tony Hansen wrote:
>>Actually in light of that question, maybe we don't need "neutral" at
>>all.  For methods that have a policy, the verification attempt will
>>produce one of the other results.  For those that don't have some
>>queryable policy, "neutral" never happens.
> 
> Well, I've seen people who want to be able to say "X doesn't say
> anything positive or negative for this message". That's the purpose of
> neutral.

OK, so how about this for neutral:

The authentication method completed but was unable to reach a positive or 
negative result for the message.

> A related question is what value should be put in the headerspec for
> failure situations? The identity has not been verified, so there's no
> value to be put into the headerspec.

Why would it change?  The method still based its evaluation on something (a 
header value, envelope data, "i=", or something else).