Absolutely.
And the question that I raized was rather different. The question is whether we
should publish a version of the overview with references to policy taken out.
I do not accept that we have to wait till completion of the policy
specification to publish a version of overview. It is sufficient to have last
call on the policy requirements. The overview document does not go into the
details of how policy works, requirements are sufficient.
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From: ietf-dkim-bounces(_at_)mipassoc(_dot_)org
[mailto:ietf-dkim-bounces(_at_)mipassoc(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of Dave Crocker
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:11 AM
To: Eliot Lear
Cc: Untitled; Powers, Jot
Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: I-D
ACTION:draft-ietf-dkim-overview-04.txt
Eliot Lear wrote:
Jot,
The overview isn't keeping DKIM from the world. In fact
you guys can
sign today, if you don't already (haven't checked).
Eliot, you are, of course, correct. But that rather misses the point.
The point is what will facilitate adoption. (Why is it that
the IETF works so hard to ignore adoption issues, as we think
merely publishing a document is the end of the task?)
The Overview document, approximately in its current form
(IMO), can be extremely helpful for the rest of the
community, to understand DKIM and make deployment and use
decisions about it.
> The real question
for me now is simply this: will those people who are writing the
overview now commit to updating it after SSP is complete?
And I for
one want to see SSP complete quickly.
Whether the current document is "updated", or a new document
is written, or an overview section in the SSP specification
itself is added strikes me as a decision to make at the time
we need the additional writing.
I'm certainly happy to commit to putting in the effort to
make sure there is text of an overview style for SSP.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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