[mail-vet-discuss] Re: Auth-Results issues? #8 secton 5.1

[J.D. Falk]

On 2006-04-27 20:14, Tony Hansen wrote:

>> Legacy MUAs
>> 
>>     An important factor to the usefulness of this proposal is adoption
>>     by Mail User Agents (MUAs) of some method by which the information
>>     the headers contain is relayed to users to indicate the validity
>>     of the message.  The lag time between publication of this standard
>>     and widespread adoption by MUAs will require careful consideration
>>     by those making use of authentication methods which relay their
>>     results using this header.
> 
> I think this is getting muddier rather than clearer. The 1st sentence is
> fine. But what does the 2nd sentence really mean? It provides no real
> guidance whatsoever other than saying "be careful".
> 
> Anyone else want to speak up on this issue? I think Murray and I are
> hitting an impasse.

This is primarily a warning to implementers, right?  So I think the 
first sentence may be sufficient.

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J.D. Falk, Anti-Spam Product Manager
Yahoo! Communications Platform Team