On Tuesday 23 January 2007 19:39, John Levine wrote: > Remember that the point of the registry is primarily to prevent > namespace collisions. Registering a name for a new algorithm doesn't > change the DKIM spec, it just tells people that if they want to fool > around with that particular algorithm, that's the name to use to be > compatible with other people doing the same. It'd take another > standards track RFC to promote a particular algorithm into the spec. > > The main reason to limit registration is to avoid namespace > exhaustion, but since these are all variable length text > strings. that's not a problem. In general, the bar to IANA > registration has been set too high, which is why there's way too many > protocol parameters documented only in the folklore. > +1
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