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Re: Feedback on DKIM draft (long)

2005-07-17 19:36:42

On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 18:33 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
 Note, Meta-Signatures has adopted a slight variant where the "T"

 is dropped.  Apparently, there is a desire to have the date to
 be only an integer, but I am not clear on the full reasons for this.

 The T is kinda sorta useful as a visual aid in breaking the field up. Aside
 from that it is pretty much a wasted byte.


Folks, please forgive an indulgent, sunday evening post, but i'm a bit 
confused 
about dropping the 't'.

does that mean it's mea-signatures, meta-signaures, or mea-signaures?


I think this comment has to do with converting an ISO 8601 standard
format:

  YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD

Where the 'T' between DD and hh is used to separate the date field from
the time field.  Dropping the 'T' only saves a byte.  The TZD is a
timezone offset that is often set to 'Z' for zero offset or GMT.
Otherwise TZD would be in the form of +hh:mm or -hh:mm.  The advantage
of adopting a text based reputation standard seems lost, if this
standard becomes modified just to save a few lines of code.

-Doug 


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