Re: [saag] SASL for mail, was IETF 93 Agenda Request - Key Discovery

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 23 July 2015 15:16 UTC

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>Even if some large email providers do end up supporting oauth SASL
>for various web services, it seems unlikely that they would do so
>for email accounts, where federated authentication seems rather
>out of place.

In the era of DMARC damage to third party mail, oath for SUBMIT is the
only way that things like forward-an-article can continue to work in a
reasonable way.  

But that's unrelated to this discussion, where I completely agree with
you that mail lives in SMTP and that's where the key distribution
belongs.

R's,
John