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Re: [ietf-dkim] alternate proposal to draft-ietf-dkim-rfc4871-errata

2009-02-11 06:07:43
On 2/11/09 10:50 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
Or, alternately, perhaps you're suggesting that's not an issue that really 
needs to be solved?  (That's not sarcastic; I don't have experience yet to 
suggest this is a fire that needs to be put out, so I'm genuinely
wondering.)

Murray,

I do not think this problem should be solved by the errata. I do not see an actual interoperability problem stemming from this issue, beyond the clarification of i=, and even there I don't actually know of any implementations that have run into problems (some references to such would be very nice).

More importantly, I am concerned about the readability of the specification, when combined with the errata. Dave and his co-authors may be extremely precise in their language, but there is a lot of it, and new terms make the reading harder, and make discussion less intuitive, requiring constant translation. I see harm with that much text, and for what *concrete *tradeoff? As engineers we must always ask ourselves that question. Show me actual reported interoperability problems between implementations beyond i= and I could at least have a positive value on the other side of the equation.

All the best,

Eliot
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