On 7/3/14 9:11 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:
On 7/2/2014 9:46 PM, Pete Resnick wrote:
On 7/1/14 11:00 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:
The working group will seek to preserve interoperability with the
installed base of DMARC systems, and will provide careful justification
for any non-interoperability.
I think we can strike the word "careful". It doesn't add anything.
I put that word in intentionally.
The requirement being imposed here is a bit unusual, since it is
intended to make the wg fully document its reasons for creating changes
that break backward compatibility. The word 'careful' is meant to
elicit thoughtful and thorough language for the justification.
In other words, it is meant to bias things against something like text
that just says "the wg reached consensus" and instead solicit "here are
the reasons...".
OK, I see what you wanted to capture, but I guess what struck me about
"careful" was that it implied that the default was "careless". How about
this instead:
The working group will seek to preserve interoperability with the
installed base of DMARC systems, and will fully document the
justification for any non-interoperability.
Seems a little less judgmental to me.
2. Reviewing and improving the base DMARC specification"
A sentence defining organizational domain is essential.
The term does not have wide, common use. Yet it refers to a core
construct for DMARC. So the charter should both use the term and
provide a basic definition for it.
I'm willing to believe that. I think *I* know what's meant, but perhaps
others don't, and a definition couldn't hurt. But:
An organizational domain is the 'base' name that is allocated from a
public registry, such as ".com" or ".co.uk".
I think the "such as" clause confuses things because it leaves an
ambiguity in the sentence as constructed: Is ".com" a public registry,
or is it a 'base' name that is allocated from a public registry? (I
believe you meant the former.) If you strike what's after the comma, I
think that's OK, but not a great definition. Perhaps you want to say
something like, "An organizational domain is the 'base' name that is
allocated from a public registry over which the registrant is assigned
authority" (or something to that effect), but I suspect there's some
nuanced DNS-ese that could be used here.
pr
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