+1.  

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:48 AM
Subject: [ietf-dkim] Policy vs Practices


> Both terms are bad, the term practices is much worse.
> 
> Policy is the term of art used to describe what the SSP 
> record is intended to do. It is directly analogous to 
> WS-Policy.
> 
> Practices in the context of PKI refers to the legal side 
> of the problem.
> 
> There is certainly a history of deprecating the role of 
> policy mechanisms in the IETF. Hence my attempt to create a 
> policy language that is absolutely minimal without 
> constraining utility.
> 
> Using the term 'practices' instead of policy is not going to 
> fool anyone, the objection is to the idea, not the name. The 
> term practices is higly loaded and has its own meaning and 
> will cause even more people to shudder.


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