Re: [Uta] New proposal: SMTP Strict Transport Security

Daniel Margolis <dmargolis@google.com> Tue, 22 March 2016 16:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Uta] New proposal: SMTP Strict Transport Security
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Yeah, we posted this to SMTP in order to get extra eyes on this, but we're
new at this process, so bear with us. I think we should have said, "Hey,
this is on the UTA mailing list, please head over there to discuss." I'll
post a followup to that effect now. :)

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
wrote:

> Hi Viktor,
>
> On 22/03/2016 16:09, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:10:57AM +0100, Daniel Margolis wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback to both of you. I don't disagree; I think Viktor
>>> makes a very solid point in favor of simplicity. In addition, a
>>> report-only
>>> protocol could be extended to support arbitrary error reporting; an
>>> out-of-band (e.g. HTTP) channel to share delivery failures between
>>> domains
>>> strikes me as useful in the general case.
>>>
>>> Separately, because we're already assuming providers (both sending and
>>> receiving) make a choice on implementing DANE and/or webPKI, I don't
>>> think
>>> actually splitting the two makes it any more or less complex to
>>> implement,
>>> or should discourage adoption of one or the other mechanism.
>>>
>>> So I would say I'm feeling a bit in favor of Viktor's suggestion, but I'd
>>> like to chat a bit more with my co-authors and think about it first. ;)
>>>
>> Great.  One more question.  I see that there are parallel
>> non-overlapping threads on this proposal on tha UTA and IETF-SMTP
>> lists.  Is either the "primary" forum for discussing this proposal?
>> Should people be encouraged to cross-post?  Should the IETF-SMTP
>> users who want to discuss it be encouraged to shift the discussion
>> here?
>>
> I think so, this document is within the UTA charter (or at least very
> close to it).
>
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