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Re: [ietf-dkim] Policy vs Practices

2006-09-05 09:28:04
+1.  

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:48 AM
Subject: [ietf-dkim] Policy vs Practices


Both terms are bad, the term practices is much worse.

Policy is the term of art used to describe what the SSP 
record is intended to do. It is directly analogous to 
WS-Policy.

Practices in the context of PKI refers to the legal side 
of the problem.

There is certainly a history of deprecating the role of 
policy mechanisms in the IETF. Hence my attempt to create a 
policy language that is absolutely minimal without 
constraining utility.

Using the term 'practices' instead of policy is not going to 
fool anyone, the objection is to the idea, not the name. The 
term practices is higly loaded and has its own meaning and 
will cause even more people to shudder.


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