Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-14 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi Charles, > The problem with the two existing Netnews protocols is that they are (a) > different and (b) inflexible. Whether they would be changed to be DOSETA > based at this late stage is doubtful, but certainly possible. But for sure > they would need different key management protocols,

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-14 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:50:45 -, Eliot Lear wrote: > While perhaps this is an entertaining idea (I was particularly > entertained since it seems to take my notion of generalization far > beyond where I might have taken it), absent an application I have a > difficult time supporting it. And ev

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-14 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:00:03 -, Steve Atkins wrote: > But if other ways of getting the public key are more suitable, what's > left? The only thing DKIM does is allow a domain to assert responsibility > for a message in a relatively cheap (if unreliable) way. That is most certainly NOT the

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-13 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jan 13, 2011, at 2:41 AM, Charles Lindsey wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:10:52 -, Dave CROCKER wrote: > >> This raise a specific and interesting technical point. I haven't seen a >> response so far, so... > >> The core of this technology has keys that are named and accessed in >> te

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-13 Thread Eliot Lear
Charles, On 1/13/11 11:41 AM, Charles Lindsey wrote: > > The question of making the public key available is entirely orthogonal to > that core protocol. The DSN mechanism is fine for some applications, > especially where the lifetime of the signature is at most a few weeks. But > other means

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-13 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:10:52 -, Dave CROCKER wrote: > This raise a specific and interesting technical point. I haven't seen a > response so far, so... > The core of this technology has keys that are named and accessed in > terms of > domain names. It really is fundamental to this technic

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-12 Thread Dave CROCKER
This raise a specific and interesting technical point. I haven't seen a response so far, so... On 1/10/2011 3:07 AM, Charles Lindsey wrote: > I think keys should be able to be based on things other than domain names. > Names of netnews newgroups in one obvious exception, but there may be many >

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-12 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:09:53 -, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On 07/Jan/11 21:58, Dave CROCKER wrote: >> Here's the proposal that Barry just announced, for splitting the DKIM >> specification into a DKIM-specific portion and an underlying, more >> generic >> portion that could be re-purposed

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-12 Thread Rolf E. Sonneveld
Hi, Murray, On 1/12/11 1:53 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: Hi Rolf, I think your concerns are reasonable. But I think the "marketing" of DKIM can be managed and maintained as it has its own momentum now; this may be true for the US, I'm not sure about other regions of the world. The fig

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-11 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
iday, January 07, 2011 3:48 PM To: dcroc...@bbiw.net Cc: DKIM Mailing List Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA" Dave, On 1/7/11 9:58 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: Folks, Here's the proposal that Barry just announced, for splitting the DKIM s

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On 07/Jan/11 21:58, Dave CROCKER wrote: > Here's the proposal that Barry just announced, for splitting the DKIM > specification into a DKIM-specific portion and an underlying, more generic > portion that could be re-purposed for other services. It's current working > acronym is DOSETA. I'm emb

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-10 Thread Barry Leiba
> We'd still have DKIM, it'd still be called DKIM, and (I assume) it'd still be > in a document called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures. Yes. > (Though I wonder: would it remain RFC 4871 after the split?) It will not, in any case, regardless of the decision to split or not. The updat

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-10 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:58:02 -, Dave CROCKER wrote: > Here's the proposal that Barry just announced, for splitting the DKIM > specification into a DKIM-specific portion and an underlying, more > generic > portion that could be re-purposed for other services. It's current > working > acro

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-07 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/7/2011 2:35 PM, John R. Levine wrote: > In the list of nits I sent along some months ago, I noted that there was a > fair > amount of text that implied that a DKIM verifier produces an edited version of > the message it's verifying. I gather we agree that it doesn't, so, uh, what's > the ne

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-07 Thread J.D. Falk
On Jan 7, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote: > • it has taken some four years to make DKIM what it is now. And with > that, I don't mean the protocol specification itself, but I mean adoption, > deployment, acceptance of DKIM, the level of knowledge about DKIM within > organizatio

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-07 Thread Rolf E. Sonneveld
Dave, On 1/7/11 9:58 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: Folks, Here's the proposal that Barry just announced, for splitting the DKIM specification into a DKIM-specific portion and an underlying, more generic portion that could be re-purposed for other services. It's current working acronym is DOSETA. No

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-07 Thread John Levine
>Here's the proposal that Barry just announced, for splitting the DKIM >specification into a DKIM-specific portion and an underlying, more generic >portion that could be re-purposed for other services. It's current working >acronym is DOSETA. Seems reasonable to me, both the split, and the pla

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-07 Thread John R. Levine
> And so, for example, controversial items such as MUA discussion were > preserved. Although they might be worthy of further discussion, that > discussion has NOTHING to do with the current round of effort. In the list of nits I sent along some months ago, I noted that there was a fair amount

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-07 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/7/2011 2:24 PM, John Levine wrote: > As it stands, 4871 suffers from too much history, and as a result > contains a great deal of stuff that has nothing to do with > implementing the protocol. I would, for example, get rid of > everything about MUAs beyond mentioning the bare facts that MUA

[ietf-dkim] Proposed documentation split between DKIM and "DOSETA"

2011-01-07 Thread Dave CROCKER
Folks, Here's the proposal that Barry just announced, for splitting the DKIM specification into a DKIM-specific portion and an underlying, more generic portion that could be re-purposed for other services. It's current working acronym is DOSETA. Note that when combined the two documents would