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Proposed Charter The Internet mail protocols and infrastructure allow mail sent from one domain to purport to be from another. While there are sometimes legitimate reasons for doing this, it has become a source of general confusion, as well as a mechanism for fraud and for distribution of spam (when done illegitimately, it's called "spoofing"). The DKIM working group will produce standards-track specifications that allow a domain to take responsibility, using digital signatures, for having taken part in the transmission of an email message and to publish "policy" information about how it applies those signatures. Taken together, these will assist receiving domains in detecting (or ruling out) certain forms of spoofing as it pertains to the signing domain. |