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[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 9/29/2020 10:56 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:
> Sigh, yes. It has caused this misunderstanding, from the start.
>
> It was imposed on the working group by an IETF Area Director and was 
> agreed to as an expedient.
>
> But, sigh, no. It does not carry any of the semantic import being 
> claimed in the current discussion. 


I meant to also include:

Section 3.11:

> To the extent that a receiver attempts to intuit any structured
>     semantics for either of the identifiers, this is a heuristic function
>     that is outside the scope of DKIM's specification and semantics.
>
>     Hence, it is relegated to a higher-level service, such as a delivery-
>     handling filter that integrates a variety of inputs and performs
>     heuristic analysis of them.
>
>        INFORMATIVE DISCUSSION: This document does not require the value
>        of the SDID or AUID to match an identifier in any other message
>        header field.  This requirement is, instead, an Assessor policy
>        issue.

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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