[mail-vet-discuss] Last Call: draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header (Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication Status) to Proposed Standard

[Dave CROCKER]

Jim Fenton wrote:
>      If you mean MUA
>> filtering software, then it will either know how to process the data
>> or it won't.
...
>> In terms of modeling, this header field is a form of inter-process
>> communication, from an authentication validator to a reputation assessor.
> 
> No, I didn't mean human user, I meant user in the sense of, for example,
> "a Firefox plug-in that makes use of the A-R header field."


To repeat what I said in the previous note:  It's an inter-process communication 
mechanism.  The DKIM validation module is merely reporting its results.

The concern you have accrues to the assessment module, not the mechanism for 
reporting.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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