On Thu, Oct 23, 2025, at 20:36, Richard Clayton wrote:
> In message <[email protected]
> .PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>, Tobias Herkula <[email protected]
> .org> writes
> 
> >I don't think we need additional complexity here of the nd= or now pp= 
> >fields, 
> >as we already have a best practice on how to delegate sending privileges to 
> >third parties, that are well understood. In the Bulk Senders and Hosted 
> >Mailbox 
> >industry it's already very common that the 3rd party that needs to be able 
> >to 
> >sign on the 1st party behalf will provide a public key to the 1st party to 
> >be 
> >included in the corresponding DNS zone, for ease of use, most of the time 
> >not 
> >the public key is provided but a set of CNAME-RRs, with these the 3rd party 
> >can 
> >easily sign on behalf of its user/customer and keep the chain intact.
> 
> Tobias is correct ... that's what everyone does.
> 
> That said -- I hear from many people at ESPs who have to hold their
> customers' hands whilst they cut and paste private keys or set up the
> CNAMEs that this is far from the simple process that people here might
> expect it to be.
> 
> That's why there is interest in developing automation so that the ESP
> can push data to the registrar and end-users just push "OK" buttons...
> 
> pp= is, I think, a little simpler to understand than adding CNAMEs or
> understanding 255 byte limits ...  but a key aim of DKIM2 is to have as
> little impact on domain owners as possible and pp= violates that !
> 
> I will remove pp= from my draft (albeit the 2-week freeze means I will
> need to post it somewhere other than on the IETF site!)

I'll be leaving pp= in the headers draft until the meeting.  I figure we can 
talk about it, nd=, and the "cname a selector in the DNS" workflows as one of 
the points.

SPEAKING OF WHICH!  Chairs, do we have an agenda yet?  Some things might come 
out of the hackathon, but I expect we know a few of the major discussion areas 
already!

* nd/pp/etc - ways in which to define / derive the legitimate signers of the 
next hop
* rt= list vs single item (I'm happy with the list here but I have heard 
dissent so we may need chairs to assess consensus on this topic)
* sign all headers or not?
* the mechanism of algorithmic dexterity
* what to include in MailVersion (and bikeshedding on the concept generally) - 
also, is the "separate counters for versions and DKIM2 signatures" a good 
design?

Bron.

--
  Bron Gondwana, CEO, Fastmail Pty Ltd / Fastmail US LLC
  [email protected]

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