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Re: Yahoo releases internet standard draft for using DNS as public
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Gerck)
Fri May 28 13:02:25 2004
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Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 09:53:58 -0700
From: Ed Gerck <egerck@nma.com>
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> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:07:43AM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>>yahoo draft internet standard for using DNS as a public key server
>>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-delany-domainkeys-base-00.txt
The main problem with this approach is revealed in a mind slip by Yahoo
themselves at http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys :
For consumers, such as Yahoo! Mail users or a grandmother accessing email
through a small mid-western ISP, industry support for sender authentication
technologies will mean that they can start trusting email again
It's "industry support". We know what it means: multiple, conflicting
approaches, slow, fragmented adoption --> will not work. It would be better
if the solution does NOT need industry support at all, only user support. It
should use what is already available.
Cheers--/Ed Gerck
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