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Re: WGLC for draft-ietf-openpgp-openpgp-15 ends Oct 28 1700EDT

2005-10-12 13:41:58

Jon Callas wrote:
On 12 Oct 2005, at 2:42 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:


I've only seen this in email, so I'm not actually sure whether its the PGP implementation or the MUA. I could gather version strings (for some instances) if that helps?


I'm happy to work merely with the anecdotal evidence that it happens a lot.

The only question is whether we should do anything, and if so, what? Since the spec really says that the blank line should be there, the what would be to relax or eliminate the requirement. I could find the right place to add "typically" for example, to indicate that it's common convention, but not required.

But that would make any implementation that adheres strictly to the present spec to be broken.

Encouraging random processing of text strikes me as a bad idea, so let's not change the words.

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