[ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-13 Thread Hector Santos
Folks, I know section 3.6.2.1 has this informative note: INFORMATIVE OPERATIONAL NOTE: Wildcard DNS records (e.g., *.bar._domainkey.example.com) do not make sense in this context and should not be used. Note also that wildcards within domains (e.g., s._domainkey.*.example

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-13 Thread SM
At 17:31 13-10-10, Hector Santos wrote: >I know section 3.6.2.1 has this informative note: [snip] >This is just to jump start suggested text. Others can add/change >whether they think helps: > > The DKIM public key TXT record MUST not be mixed or merged > with other TXT records, i.e. S

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-14 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 10/14/2010 12:45 AM, SM wrote: > RFC 4871 discusses about DNS in various sections. Unfortunately, > there is no reference to the DNS specifications. OMG. As in, wow. I propose changing from: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) permits a person, role, or organi

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-14 Thread Mark Delany
> to: > > title="Introduction"> > > DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) permits a person, role, or > organization to claim some responsibility for a message by > associating a domain name target="RFC1034" /> with the message. Th

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-14 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 10/14/2010 9:49 AM, Mark Delany wrote: > Well, just to create a bit more of a rat-hole, is there any chance > you'd like to add a definitional link for the word "message" as well? The easy and possibly sufficient answer is: RFC 5322. If more precision is required, then Section 3.5 of RFC 5

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-14 Thread Hector Santos
SM wrote: > That text adds a requirement in an informative note. > >> My proposal to add more informative notes to help minimize this for >> the systems with the lack of DNS admin expertise on board. In >> particular for those with currently one existing need for a TXT record >> and that is SPF a

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-14 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
> -Original Message- > From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] > On Behalf Of Dave CROCKER > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:23 AM > To: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org > Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT rec

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-14 Thread Barry Leiba
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:45 AM, SM wrote: > At 17:31 13-10-10, Hector Santos wrote: >>My proposal to add more informative notes to help minimize this for >>the systems with the lack of DNS admin expertise on board. In >>particular for those with currently one existing need for a TXT record >>and

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-14 Thread Scott Kitterman
"Barry Leiba" wrote: >On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:45 AM, SM wrote: >> At 17:31 13-10-10, Hector Santos wrote: >>>My proposal to add more informative notes to help minimize this for >>>the systems with the lack of DNS admin expertise on board. In >>>particular for those with currently one existin

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-14 Thread Hector Santos
Barry Leiba wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:45 AM, SM wrote: >> At 17:31 13-10-10, Hector Santos wrote: >>> My proposal to add more informative notes to help minimize this for >>> the systems with the lack of DNS admin expertise on board. In >>> particular for those with currently one existing

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-14 Thread Hector Santos
Scott Kitterman wrote: > +1. > > Just as a note of clarification, SPF doesn't prefix TXT records, but I don't > think that affects the analysis. The Network Solutions DNS Records manager does not allow you to add a TXT record without a sub-domain, so to add one, you have to add * which when sa

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-14 Thread Hector Santos
Barry Leiba wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:45 AM, SM wrote: >> At 17:31 13-10-10, Hector Santos wrote: >>> My proposal to add more informative notes to help minimize this for >>> the systems with the lack of DNS admin expertise on board. In >>> particular for those with currently one existing

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
> -Original Message- > From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] > On Behalf Of Barry Leiba > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:49 AM > To: IETF DKIM WG > Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Hector Santos
Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: >> I appreciate the desire to put more information in there to help, but >> we really can't be writing a tutorial on managing DNS records. > > +1. However, I'd be fine with adding some informative guidance to DKIM > implementers reflecting current experience, somethin

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Barry Leiba
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Hector Santos wrote: > Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > >>> I appreciate the desire to put more information in there to help, but >>> we really can't be writing a tutorial on managing DNS records. >> >> +1.  However, I'd be fine with adding some informative guidance to

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Bill.Oxley
support On Oct 15, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Hector Santos wrote: >> Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: >> I appreciate the desire to put more information in there to help, but we really can't be writing a tutorial on managing DNS records. >>> >>>

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 15, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Barry Leiba wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Hector Santos wrote: >> Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: >> I appreciate the desire to put more information in there to help, but we really can't be writing a tutorial on managing DNS records. >>> >>> +1.

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, October 15, 2010 01:58:07 pm Barry Leiba wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Hector Santos wrote: > > Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > >>> I appreciate the desire to put more information in there to help, but > >>> we really can't be writing a tutorial on managing DNS records. > >> >

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 10/15/2010 2:46 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: > I'm not sure whether wildcard records is relevant to the spec - that's > more of a "development, deployment and operations" issue, I think. The degree to which a processing environment is expected to be "pure" versus potentially "noisy" might well c

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread SM
At 08:25 14-10-10, Hector Santos wrote: >I don't think I am suggesting to get into the bad DNS managements >tools. But the section is short on what are possible error issues. >One of them is making sure other TXT records don't conflict. I think >that can be a general, generic statement that does

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 10/14/2010 12:22 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > Seems OK to me. But doesn't EMAIL-ARCH talk about domain names and ADMDs and > all that? Perhaps it's a better reference for this? As much as I like to tout email-arch, the citation here needs to be specifically about the DNS and, for exa

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Dave CROCKER
>> The DKIM public key TXT record MUST not be mixed or merged >> with other TXT records, i.e. SPF. In addition, make sure other >> TXT records with Wildcards do not conflict with DKIM public >> key lookups. > > That text adds a requirement in an informative note. THat is

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Hector Santos wrote: >> Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: >> I appreciate the desire to put more information in there to help, but we really can't be writing a tutorial on managing DNS records. >>> >>> +1.  

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
> -Original Message- > From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] > On Behalf Of Jeff Macdonald > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 12:54 PM > To: IETF DKIM WG > Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT > record

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Hector Santos
SM wrote: >> This is just to jump start suggested text. Others can add/change >> whether they think helps: >> >> The DKIM public key TXT record MUST not be mixed or merged >> with other TXT records, i.e. SPF. In addition, make sure other >> TXT records with Wildcards do not conflic

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Douglas Otis
On 10/15/10 10:58 AM, Barry Leiba wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Hector Santos > wrote: > > Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > > > >>> I appreciate the desire to put more information in there to > >>> help, but we really can't be writing a tutorial on managing DNS > >>> records. > >> > >>

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread John Levine
>In this case, we've gone to some lengths to make the environment >pure, by using the underscore branch. And then along come these >pesky wildcards. Even without wildcards, there's been a variety of broken key records. I would hope it would be obvious that you have to assume that any data you ha

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 15, 2010, at 7:13 PM, John Levine wrote: >> In this case, we've gone to some lengths to make the environment >> pure, by using the underscore branch. And then along come these >> pesky wildcards. > > Even without wildcards, there's been a variety of broken key records. > > I would hope

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Hector Santos
John Levine wrote: > By the way, has everyone tested their signing code to see what happens > if there's no From: header at all? Do we even agree what the right > thing is? I'd think it'd be approximately the same as if the private > signing key (the only other mandatory input I can think of at

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Hector Santos
Steve Atkins wrote: >> I'd think it'd be approximately the same as if the private >> signing key (the only other mandatory input I can think of at the >> moment) wasn't present. > > If it fails, it's broken, I think. There's nothing special about the >>From field, other than it having to be one o

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 15, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Hector Santos wrote: > Steve Atkins wrote: > >>> I'd think it'd be approximately the same as if the private >>> signing key (the only other mandatory input I can think of at the >>> moment) wasn't present. >> >> If it fails, it's broken, I think. There's nothing spe

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-15 Thread SM
Hi Hector, At 13:04 15-10-10, Hector Santos wrote: >You can tell me if I am wrong here cause I am trying to make sure I It is not up to me to determine whether you are wrong. :-) >1) Verifier TXT record parsing > >I checked for this, but did not find it, but was a quick scan. > >If the DKIM specs

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-16 Thread Hector Santos
SM wrote: >> You can tell me if I am wrong here cause I am trying to make sure I > > It is not up to me to determine whether you are wrong. :-) From an IETF procedural angle. :) >> 1) Verifier TXT record parsing >> >> I checked for this, but did not find it, but was a quick scan. >> >> If the

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-17 Thread SM
Hi Hector, At 09:28 16-10-10, Hector Santos wrote: > From an IETF procedural angle. :) I'll comment on how I read what the WG Chairs said in general terms. If you believe that the process followed is not fair, you could discuss the matter with the WG Chairs. I'll quote a message from a WG C

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-18 Thread Hector Santos
SM wrote: > Hi Hector, > At 09:28 16-10-10, Hector Santos wrote: >> From an IETF procedural angle. :) > > I'll comment on how I read what the WG Chairs said in general terms. If > you believe that the process followed is not fair, you could discuss the > matter with the WG Chairs. I'll quot

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-18 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
> -Original Message- > From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] > On Behalf Of John Levine > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 7:14 PM > To: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org > Cc: dcroc...@bbiw.net > Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - W

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-20 Thread Charles Lindsey
dkim@mipassoc.org >> Cc: dcroc...@bbiw.net >> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records >> >> By the way, has everyone tested their signing code to see what happens >> if there's no From: header at all? Do we even agree what the right

Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT records

2010-10-20 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
> -Original Message- > From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] > On Behalf Of Charles Lindsey > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 3:52 AM > To: DKIM > Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: 3.6.2.1 - Working with other TXT > records &g