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Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE: verifier message editing language

2011-04-12 20:26:38
On 4/12/2011 6:02 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
3.4.5, first INFORMATIVE IMPLEMENTATION NOTE, last sentence: delete "or
remove text that appears after the specified content length" since
verifiers do not produce an edited message.
...
3.5, l= tag, INFORMATIVE IMPLEMENTATION WARNING, remove "or remove text
that appears after the specified content length" since verifiers don't
produce an edited message.
...
6.1.3, next to last paragraph, remove "by truncating the message at the
indicated body length" since verifiers do not create an edited message.


Replacing "remove" and "truncating"  with "ignore" and "ignoring" would 
accomplish the same correction while preserving the reminder about the effect 
of l=?

Look at the sections in context, and I think you'll agree that those bits 
should just go.  There's no question that the verifier ignores text beyond 
the l= limit, and in both places the text says so.  But it also says that 
the verifier can munge the message to delete the text it didn't verify, 
which is wrong.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet 
for Dummies",
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