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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Ellermann
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> | Any party, anywhere along the transit path can implement DKIM
> | signing.  Its use is not confined to the end systems or only
> | in a boundary MTA.
> 
> Found in 3.1.2, but chapter starts with "end-to-end", and this
> is a critical point of the design.  Please explain it, proposal:
> 
> [... as is ...]
> | Signatures by intermediaries are also known as third party
> | signatures.

I'd like to be a bit more precise. I believe when people refer to 3rd
party signature, they mean a signature from an entity not represented in
the From header (as in ASP), or possibly also the Reply-to header. 

In other words, it is not affected by where the signing is done, but
rather by what entity is represented by the signature, i.e. the
originator could sign with a 3rd party signature, and an intermediary
could sign with a (delegated) 1st party signature. 

Ellen

> 
> If you add "email-arch" as reference maybe use the proper term
> "mediators" instead of "intermediaries", or add "(mediators)".
> 
>  Frank
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