> -----Original Message----- > From: John R. Levine [mailto:jo...@iecc.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 1:29 PM > To: Murray S. Kucherawy > Cc: DKIM List > Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] MLMs and signatures again > > If anyone's claiming that contributors' DKIM signatures on list mail are > important, a good start would be to look at how PGP and S/MIME signatures > have been treated during the many years they've been in use. I don't see > any harm in experiments like having an MLM adding a signed A-R header to > the mail, since it doesn't break anything that works now, but I would want > rather concrete evidence from anyone claiming that people pay any more > attention than they do to S/MIME signatures now.
There are parties that want to do that experiment because they see potential in it. (In fact they're doing it now through a non-standard hack; I need to ask them for results.) What would probably be helpful is some decent description from them of why they think it's valuable and how they plan to use it. You're absolutely right that nobody's cared up until now, but I'm not as sure as you are that this makes the question utterly uninteresting. _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html