Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Use of XPTR records in SSP

[Jim Fenton <[e-mail]>]

Douglas Otis wrote:
>
> On Apr 16, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Jim Fenton wrote:
>
>> This is the first of a few issues that come in trying to rationalize
>> at least two of the SSP proposals, draft-hallambaker-dkimpolicy-00
>> and draft-allman-dkim-ssp.  I'd like to keep the issues separate,
>> because I think they're largely independent, so please respond in
>> kind if at all possible.
>
> This assumes a simple authorization scheme is not effective at
> protecting a principal domain.  For example, if the industry creates a
> list of domains used for the purpose of registries, then this would
> identify precisely which domain should be queried.  As there are some
> TLDs publishing MX records, such a list becomes even more important
> from the prospect of limiting the scope of TLDs with respect to DKIM
> sub-domain validations.

I'm not clear on specifically who "the industry" is that you're
referring to that creates and maintains the list.  It sounds like you're
proposing some other kind of non-self-published database that identifies
mailing domains.  It doesn't sound like the SSP of which we just
completed the last-call of the requirements document.

-Jim
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