[Top] [All Lists]  Re: [ietf-dkim] A more fundamental SSP axiom
2006-08-02 20:01:09 Please don't shoot the messanger: I'm just
asking.  I hadn't intended to shoot, sorry if it came across
that way. You're right, people find all sorts of other uses for
successful protocols, but those uses tend to be "pull",
repurpose info already used for something else rather than
"push", stick in the data and see if anyone cares. The way we're
trying to define SSP is really risky since we have, as far as I
can tell, no operational experience at all with anything SSP-
like so we're just guessing about what will be useful.  It seems
to me that so far we have two, maybe three, items that a sender
could publish that would plausibly be useful to a recipient
trying to decide what to do with an incoming message that isn't
self-signed.  "I send no mail" is about the strongest possible
hint that the message is forged, and the recipient doesn't want
it.  "I sign all mail" is the next strongest hint, saying to me
that the sender believ