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

Scott K
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