On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote:

> My own motivation is the former, not the latter.  That is, yes I would
> like to recover the author domain signature if we can come up with a
> relatively robust way to do that without creating a security hole; no, my
> motivation has nothing to do with enabling uptake of "p=reject", though
> that might be a side effect that I think others would find beneficial.
>
> It still creates a security hole. But maybe a more tractable one; we
> shouldn't cop attitude that it doesn't. There are tradeoffs to both
> approaches. Security is a risk/reward thing, after all.
>
Yep, this would need to be discussed in the Security Considerations of the
protocol document, for sure.

>
> I think I recall that the group initiating this effort sees this new thing
> as something that could supplant DMARC, but they're free to correct me if
> I've got that wrong.
>
> Really? Yikes. Really, there is nothing new under the sun. All of this is
> basically SSP as far as DKIM goes.
>
DMARC is basically super-SSP/ADSP, yes.

We haven't stipulated in the charter that there's a policy piece to this,
so I may be overstepping here (or the memory I have is of someone else
doing so), which is why I invited correction.

-MSK
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