On 28/Jul/11 18:34, t.petch wrote: > The minor point is that e-mails have just got yet bigger. They are now 100-150% > bigger than when first I started following the IETF According to Nielsen's Law, network connection speeds double every 21 months. DKIM is apparently using a quite reasonable fraction of that. > But more importantly we have abolished the end-to-end principle. If I am going > to benefit from improved security on e-mail, I want to from the originator to > me, not some half-way house giving a spurious impression of accuracy. Most users don't want perfect accuracy into the mail system. Not only because of the burden of maintaining keys, but also for concerns about freedom of speech, right to anonymity, possibility to play jokes, and the like. MSA endorsement allows all that, and still delivers some responsibility by leveraging the trust between authors and their mailbox providers. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf