Had you said something like "deemed useful to improve the viability of
services based on these specifications" I would have no problem. That's
about where the bar needs to be IMO.
Folks,
We've run Ned's proposed charter change past Russ Housley, the AD overseeing
this BOF, and he considers it a significant improvement.
Unless there is a groundswell of objection, which includes a groundswell of
support for alternate language, I propose changing the charter to use this text.
The first paragraph of the Description section of the charter will be:
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DESCRIPTION:
Forgery of headers that indicate message origin is a problem for users of
Internet mail. The MASS working group will produce specifications that permit
authentication of message headers during transit, using public-key signatures
and based on domain name identifiers. Keys will be stored in the responsible
identity's DNS hierarchy. The specification will be based on the draft-
allman-dkim-*.txt Internet-Drafts. The working group will make only the
minimal changes deemed useful, to improve the viability of services that are
based on these specifications. The specifications will contain summaries of
the threats, requirements and limitations that are associated with the
specified mechanism. The MASS working group will also address mechanisms for
advertising "signing policy" so that a recipient can determine whether a
valid message signature should be present.
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Comments?
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