Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Mike Adkins had an interesting suggestion where he'd use d=aol.com to
> sign outbound messages, and i=g...@aol.com, b...@aol.com and
> susp...@aol.com to denote various reputation scores that aol's filters
> assigned an outbound message.
> 
> This would allow aol to separate mail into different streams at their
> end, and it'd allow receiving ISPs aware of this i= classification to
> specialcase their filters to watch for i=bad or i=suspect email from
> aol.

and why is that better, or worse, than d=good.aol.com, d=bad.aol.com, 
d=suspect.aol.com?

note your reliance on "ISPs aware of this i= classification".  It means that 
the 
mechanism won't scale, since we cannot assume that an arbitrary receiver will 
be 
aware of an arbitrary signer's scheme.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net
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