On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:53 PM, J.D. Falk > <jdfalk-li...@cybernothing.org> wrote: >> It's irrelevant for purposes of spam filtering, but not for the >> equally >> valid purpose of "is this message really from my grandma?" >> >> (Or, more accurately, "is this message really from my grandma's >> email address?") > > 1. Does her grandson run mailops at the receiver ISP? > > 2. Does the receiver ISP make finegrained control based on dkim sigs > part of the client experience for the user? Webmail possibly but from > a toolbar? And how do they stop it being gamed, how do they keep > state for millions of accounts, and then keep changing things around > when grandsom breaks up with one girlfriend, suddenly decides another > dude is a twit etc? > > That's not layering trust as much as it becomes a gigantic social > networking site based on dkim, scaled large enough
Exactly. And that's something that's already demonstrated to scale and be useful. Merging that functionality into (a large subset of) email is almost inevitable, I think. Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
