On 16 Jan 2005, at 10:11 AM, Brian G. Peterson wrote:
I do not believe that support for partitioned in the notation packet
implies
RFC 1991 compatibility. We have decided that 2440bis will obsolete
RFC 1991,
if I recall the concensus of the group correctly. We have also
otherwise
addressed dash-escaping and trailing whitespace issues. I think that a
'partitioned' scheme is the only option currently available to
implementors
who require independent verification of each part, as well as
verification of
the whole.
RFC 1991 was an informational RFC. It has no basis in anything. 2440
tacitly replaces it, since 2440 is standards track and 1991 isn't. 1991
is pre-OpenPGP history. Please don't drag it in. Thanks.
We had debates before about whether we should explicitly say we
obsolete 1991. In the old days, you never said that standards-track
replaced informational-track because informational is merely, well,
informational. That interpretation has changed and we're now explicitly
saying we replace something that was never a standard to begin with.
I'm happy to have documents say or not say whatever they need to say or
not say. Whatever else we do, let's leave 1991 out of discussions. Like
Mr. Cleese's parrot, it has joined the choir eternal, and only stands
up if someone nails it to its perch.
Jon