Mark Delany wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 02:29:26PM -0400, Barry Leiba allegedly wrote:
>>> This paragraph is rather misleading because it implies to me that you must
>>> convert to the canonical form for the *hash* function, not that you must 
>>> convert the message before forwarding.
>> OK; if you can propose a rewrite to Eric that'll make the intended 
>> meaning clearer, I'm sure he'll appreciate that.
> 
> What Mike was saying sounded pretty good. Along the lines of "must
> produce rfc2822 conformant output as a consequence of signing" sounds
> about right.


My last message passed yours in transit. I see one significant difference
between them:

This suggests that DKIM is "producing" the conformance.  I think we should not
say that.  It is not DKIM's job to go around *changing* bodies, or the like.

I think we do our part of the job merely by saying that a message handed to the
DKIM signing component MUST be rfc 2822 compliant.

(That we might add some informative text discussing the issue is a separate 
matter.)

d/
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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net
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