On Tuesday 23 January 2007 19:39, John Levine wrote:
Remember that the point of the registry is primarily to prevent
namespace collisions. Registering a name for a new algorithm doesn't
change the DKIM spec, it just tells people that if they want to fool
around with that particular algorithm, that's the name to use to be
compatible with other people doing the same. It'd take another
standards track RFC to promote a particular algorithm into the spec.
The main reason to limit registration is to avoid namespace
exhaustion, but since these are all variable length text
strings. that's not a problem. In general, the bar to IANA
registration has been set too high, which is why there's way too many
protocol parameters documented only in the folklore.
+1
Scott K
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