Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Mark has written a draft [1] that documents the pre-WG state of
> domainkeys. This is to be discussed on the next IESG telechat,
> with the goal being for it to be published as an historic RFC.

What is the reason for Historic, rather than Informational?

I am prety sure that historic has never been applied to a specification that was
not previously an IETF standard.  The usual means of labeling an RFC that
specifies a popular, proprietary protocol is Informational.


> The question: is it better for this document to be published as an
> historic RFC "now" or at the same time as the standards track DKIM
> base RFC is published? (Where all timings here are modulo the RFC
> editor's queuing discipline.)

same time.  we have enough confusion in the market, as it is.

d/

-- 

  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net
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