Dave,
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:08 PM
To: Jim Schaad
Cc: 'IETF DKIM WG'
Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] DKIM Charter Comments
4. It is not clear to me that you can separate the
development of the
DNS RR from the base specification. My assumption is that the base
specification is stating how the addressing of the DNS RR is to be
done and to effectively specfiy the content. It makes more
sense to
me to pull each of the different DNS RR's into the
respective documents.
This seems to relate to a continuing question of the scope of
the base specification.
So let me try out one line of thinking about it:
If the base specification is for a complete, end-to-end
"system" then indeed the query service needs to be included,
in enough detail to permit a query to be performed.
If, instead, the base is merely the core
signing/validating mechanism that is a component of the
overall service, then the query service can be specified separately.
The base, then, needs to specify that keys are
available for signing and validating, respectively, but it
does not have to provide the details of how the keys are obtained.
Does this make sense?
Yes this does make sense in many ways. My problem is that I am not sure
that we can specify the base document without specifying how keys are
identified. If you define how they are identified then you have probably
starting talking about how they are to be retrieved. It would be possible
to just state that you include a URL and go from there, but I don't know
that this is the way the current base documents are specified.
Jim
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Dave Crocker
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