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Re: [ietf-dkim] Output requirements

2011-05-06 13:39:59
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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: Thursday, May 05, 2011 1:08 PM
To: Charles Lindsey
Cc: DKIM
Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Output requirements

+   Verifiers SHOULD ignore those signatures that produce a PERMFAIL
+   result (see Section 7.1), acting as though they were not present
in
+   the message.  ...

s/Verifiers SHOULD ignore/Identity assessors SHOULD ignore/

(and probably in other places too). Verifiers are explicitly instructed
to return PERMFAIL/TEMPFAIL), and "returning" something is evidently
inconsistent with "ignoring" it.

+1

Since this is already somewhat mushy, might I suggest:

Verifiers MAY decline to report, and identity assessors SHOULD ignore, ...


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