I heartily endorse the idea of closing useless registries. Bron.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2026, at 13:59, Richard Clayton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > If you read RFC6376 (DKIM1) you will see that a number of pages are > spent instructing IANA to set up registries > > 7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 > 7.1. Email Authentication Methods Registry . . . . . . . . . . 51 > 7.2. DKIM-Signature Tag Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 > 7.3. DKIM-Signature Query Method Registry . . . . . . . . . . . 52 > 7.4. DKIM-Signature Canonicalization Registry . . . . . . . . . 52 > 7.5. _domainkey DNS TXT Resource Record Tag Specifications . . 53 > 7.6. DKIM Key Type Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 > 7.7. DKIM Hash Algorithms Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 > 7.8. DKIM Service Types Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 > 7.9. DKIM Selector Flags Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 > 7.10. DKIM-Signature Header Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 > > with the exception of adding an elliptic curve key type these registries > contain the same information today as 15 years ago ... > > ... this leads to the conclusion that these registries serve no > practical purpose (you can get more information from reading RFC6376 and > (although there is little evidence anyone has read it) RFC8463 > > I therefore suggest that we do not bother with IANA registries for DKIM2 > and in the fullness of time, when we write an RFC to move DKIM1 to > historic, we close them at the same time... or we could close them to > new entries now (albeit if no-one looks at them, it's probably not worth > bothering to do that). > > If we agree on this I can remove a TBA from the next version of the spec > > - -- > richard @ highwayman . com "Nothing seems the same > Still you never see the change from day to day > And no-one notices the customs slip away" > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 > > iQA/AwUBao3X7WHfC/FfW545EQJBZgCgtafqzCzahhkGKAE5/RdW0cp3910An3Ch > vFwZtjkiuZYGr7XwFMn1JDCP > =XmPI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf-dkim mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- Bron Gondwana, CEO, Fastmail Pty Ltd / Fastmail US LLC [email protected]
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