On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 07:58 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
> 
> John Levine wrote:
> >>> But I have to say, without any sort of domain blanket/coverage
> >>> option, it seems like something is really missing here.
> > 
> > I'm seeing an implicit assumption that if someone has an opinion about
> > mail from foo.com, they will have a similar opinion of mail from
> > subdomains a.foo.com or a.b.foo.com, or a.b.c.foo.com.  I've been
> > thinking about the mail I actually see, and I am having great
> > difficulty finding even a small set of real life scenarios where that
> > is true.
> 
> Good timing.  I had started thinking about the fact that DKIM's d= parameter 
> allows differentiating among (sub) domain names.
> 
> The premise is that these would have different reputations.  The last thing 
> one wants for that is a mechanism that groups them all together.

It would be nice that some BCP says d= should be treated as an opaque
value since I don't think the DKIM spec says such a thing.

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