On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 08:51:44AM -0700, Douglas Otis wrote:
> Trust annotation could highlight a message or place it into a special  
> folder, for example.
> 
> Not all sources within a domain are equally vetted.
> 
> Increased use of sub-domains may weaken DKIM as a trust mechanism;  
> which domain name should be trusted?

So given this as a parent domain:

example.com

and these as subdomains of the parent domain:

transactional
admin
system
bulk

which one should be trusted? I'd say none.

> Well vetted sources can be indicated by the signer with some type of  
> notation or semaphore.
> 
> Signer trust semaphores should be coupled with the signature.

<snip the rest>

I do like this semaphore/opaque token idea. I think it answers Laura
Mathers' question (at the sender authentication summit) about MUA's
showing only quoted parts.

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