On 14/Jul/11 03:48, John Levine wrote: >>Yes, and perhaps disclaimers/confidentiality notices should be >>standardized with their own MIME type to make automatic processing >>easier so receivers of this kind of notice (mailing-list or other) >>can respect the wishes of the sender. > > That respect would of course be demonstrated by rejecting or > discarding the mail unread, to avoid any possibility that it could > fall into the wrong hands. Yes, with the possible exception of recipients deploying a Treacherous Computing environment that includes checks against forwarding or replying with non fair use quotations of confidential messages. > PS: Perhaps I should propose a revised RFC 5617 adding dkim=confidential. One can sign the "Sensitivity" header field defined by RFC 2156. It can have the values "Personal" / "Private" / "Company-Confidential". However, I received some messages bearing a confidentiality notice but missing this field entirely. Even the TC system above could hardly cope with such inconsistent settings. Do notices still retain any legal value in such cases? _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf