The following errata report has been submitted for RFC8617,
"The Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) Protocol".

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You may review the report below and at:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid7910

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]>

Section: 4.1.2

Original Text
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   arc-ams-info = instance [CFWS] ";" tag-list
   arc-message-signature = "ARC-Message-Signature:" [CFWS] arc-ams-info

Corrected Text
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   arc-ams-info = instance [FWS] ";" tag-list
   arc-message-signature = "ARC-Message-Signature:" [FWS] arc-ams-info


Notes
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The RFC claims in 4.1.2

   The AMS header field has the same syntax and semantics as the DKIM-
   Signature field [RFC6376], with three (3) differences:

but the three differences do not denote the FWS->CFWS change.

CFWS is to be parsed very differently than FWS, given its potentially infinite 
recursion behaviour, and the possibility to use quoted-pair's, ie, 
"escapability", something which (like almost RFC 5322 as such in practice) the 
DKIM RFC circumvents by using VALCHAR, a corruption of VCHAR as of RFC 5234.
In effect neither of these standards adhere to neither of RFC 5322 (plain 
atext, quoted-string, quoted-pair) nor RFC 2045 (K=V without whitespace; 
quoted-printable or base64 for 7-bit clarity etc etc), making them very hard to 
parse, to mention my humble opinion.

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RFC8617 (draft-ietf-dmarc-arc-protocol-23)
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Title               : The Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) Protocol
Publication Date    : July 2019
Author(s)           : K. Andersen, B. Long, Ed., S. Blank, Ed., M. Kucherawy, 
Ed.
Category            : EXPERIMENTAL
Source              : Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & 
Conformance
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG

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