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Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed new charter

2010-03-15 13:52:57
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From: ietf-dkim-bounces(_at_)mipassoc(_dot_)org [mailto:ietf-dkim-
bounces(_at_)mipassoc(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of Barry Leiba
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 11:32 AM
To: IETF DKIM WG
Subject: [ietf-dkim] Proposed new charter

[...]

  2. Collect data on the deployment, interoperability, and
     effectiveness of the base DKIM protocol, with consideration
     toward updating the working group's informational documents.

Would an appropriate part of this output be a "standard" test suite for 
implementations to try, i.e. a batch of test messages and their expected body 
and header hashes?

There are vague reports of interoperability issues starting to surface, and I 
wonder how proactive the WG can be in assisting resolution of these.  Debugging 
interoperability problems is often a chore, especially when unresponsive 
vendors are involved.  Nipping these problems before they get out into the wild 
is possibly the best course of action.

If this isn't a reasonable WG output, the implementers can probably come up 
with such a test suite among themselves, but it seems to me there's a lot of 
audience overlap anyway...

-MSK

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