Re: [Vcon] Email metadata in vCon

[Orie Steele <[e-mail]>]

Adding a few email experts (I am not an email expert).

These parameters look correct to me for vCon, but I am not sure if there
are additional email details that should be considered for archival use
cases.

I also wonder if there is any encryption or signing information which might
be retained in a useful way, such that a holder of a vCon and some trust
roots might confirm that parts of a vCon have not been tampered with,
without using the custom JOSE approaches in the draft today.

I'm thinking specifically of the case where I might know that a Party had a
particular key at a point in time, and I might be able to use that key to
verify an email message that had been archived in vCon.

I suppose there could also be DMARC / DKIM fields that we might expect to
see preserved per message.

Regards,

OS

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 2:03 PM Dan Petrie <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Orie:
> You are probably swamped, catching up after IETF 119.  When you have a few
> minutes, it would be great to have your input on this.
>
> I think that you have worked with email in a vCon more than many people
> have so far.  However, if anyone else on the list has any thoughts on this,
> I would greatly appreciate your input too.
>
> I have done a little work putting email messages into a vCon, one message
> per dialog.  Mostly, my use was in some simple unit tests and in generating
> examples for the I-D.  The table below maps the SMTP headers that I have
> put into a vCon.
>
> Are there any other SMTP header fields or metadata that you think should
> be possible to include in a vCon?
>
> Do you agree with the mapping from SMTP to vCon parameters?
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
>
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