Hi Tsuneki,
first of all, since I write, let me make my welcome-on-list explicit!

On 22/Nov/10 03:43, Tsuneki Ohnishi wrote:
> Senders in dkim.jp are committed to attach DKIM signature
> withing 6 months, and possibly ready to write their ADSP
> "discardable". Since we have major ISPs on our member list
> and they are very willing to discard unveryfied emails,
> no surprise about it :-), we are trying to inch up to the
> level where all domestic emails are signed and verified.

I hope you'll get replies more qualified than mine...
FWIW, I suggest you do not use ADSP that way.

> But there is a small problem. It is rather political.
> We have a telecommunication law that allows ISPs to discard
> forged email, but our Ministry so far does not acknowledge
> that failure of DKIM verification immediately equals to 
> forgery, because there could be other reasons to fail.

IMHO, your Ministry is correct.

> We can fight about it taking time to get through to dull
> Japanese bureaucracy, but I think there is a faster way.
> It is to let senders to have an option to declare that
> if there is no DKIM signature at all, verifiers can discard
> those messages. Then we can shut their mouths insisting
> there could be other reasons.

As an alternative, it is the recipients who may eventually decide they
are not interested in receiving unsigned contributions to their
inboxes, unless they have other means to identify those messages.
IMHO, such decision should be made by each recipient individually.
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