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Re: [ietf-dkim] 4871bis/4871 interop

2009-06-02 16:54:19
Key Records:

1) 4871bis-compliant code SHOULD be able to use
  4871-compliant key records
2) 4871-compliant code SHOULD be able to use
  4871bis-compliant key records

Signatures:

3) 4871-compliant code generated signatures SHOULD be
  verifiable by 4871bis-compliant code
4) 4871bis-compliant code generated signatures SHOULD be
  verifiable by 4871-compliant code

By SHOULD, I'm assuming we will remove some of the cruft, so that
signatures that didn't depend on exotic use of the cruft will still
work, e.g., an l= value is the actual body length so the body hash
covers the whole body, or an x= value is in a reasonable range.

The practical effect as far as I can see is only that we have to
reserve the key letters of the stuff we take out so it's not reused
for something else in DKIM N+1.  It already says that unrecognized
tags are ignored.

R's,
John
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