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Re: DKIM: c=simple is aspirational

2005-07-16 10:03:03

At 08:02 16-07-2005, Ned Freed wrote:
As for the liklihood that people will deploy DKIM in simple mode, only to find
that it fails, this can be dealt with by appropriate wording choices. The
current wording is IMO inadequate - this needs to be a SHOULD use nowsp mode
unless you're sure simple mode will work. noswp mode also need to be the
default.

It is up to the signer to determine whether they wish to allow any modification of the email and choose the appropriate canonicalization. It is premature to have nowsp mode as a SHOULD.

Regards,
-sm

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