It appears that Michael Thomas  <m...@mtcc.com> said:
>> Are you against DNS (and by extension its security mechanisms) being 
>> used for DKIM in general? And not that you would find it valuable to 
>> know if the public keys were fetched in a way that their 
>> authenticity/integrity is known?
>
>It was a mistake, yes. We didn't understand the overall costs at the 
>time and DNS seemed like a cheaper (computewise, etc) alternative to 
>setting up a https based key server. 

If you think that's a good idea, I encourage you to write a draft and see
if anyone is interested.

But first, I hope we are all aware that the vast majority of https certificates
are signed automatically using ACME. How does ACME validate the domain names it
signs?

R's,
John

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