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Re: [ietf-dkim] summarizing my understanding of the errata discussion & a proposal

2009-02-06 08:03:30


Eliot Lear wrote:
It is common for Errata to provide precise corrections.  That means 
supplying
the exact text that needs to be changed.  While a generic "warning" is
comforting, it is not precise.

While I am very much amenable to a different set of text, I do not 
accept your characterization of the above text as a generic warning.  
The warning is actually quite specific. 


RFC4871 is a body of specific text.  Either one publishes replacements for its 
text or one publishes a rule that can be used for replacing text.  The current 
Errata draft does the former.  You want to do the latter.

The latter invites one reader to apply the rule differently than another 
reader. 
  The former does not.

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net
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