Re: [dane] email canonicalization for SMIMEA owner names

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Fri, 12 December 2014 16:13 UTC

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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:12:56 -0500
From: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>
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Subject: Re: [dane] email canonicalization for SMIMEA owner names
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Nico Williams wrote:

> Yes: use MSA/MTA as the keyserver, both for lookup and registration.

Why add another service, another dependancy and another choke point and
another trans protocol for auditing that the world sees the same view?

That can all be done with DNS.

Adding another service just adds more problems.

Paul