Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-melnikov-smtp-priority-09

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <msk@cloudmark.com> Mon, 12 March 2012 16:52 UTC

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To: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@bbiw.net>, Chris Lonvick <clonvick@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-melnikov-smtp-priority-09
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dcrocker@bbiw.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 9:45 AM
> To: Chris Lonvick
> Cc: iesg@ietf.org; secdir@ietf.org; draft-melnikov-smtp-priority.all@tools.ietf.org; Murray S. Kucherawy
> Subject: Re: SECDIR review of draft-melnikov-smtp-priority-09
> 
> (copying Murray, in case he has further thoughts...)

I agree with Dave's points, and would also add that this draft doesn't need to call out a "right" solution.  It would probably be just fine calling out the pros and cons regarding choosing whether to cover the MT-Priority header field with a DKIM signature, and leaving it to the implementation to decide.

-MSK