At 14:35 16-06-2009, Michael Thomas wrote: >1) People saying that d= is THE IDENTIFIER are overloading the >value: d= a routing > label to a particular DNS subtree. Whether it has anything to do with THE > IDENTIFIER is purely coincidental. The assumption that these > two functions are > identical is bogus. i= was supposed to be this stable value > detached from the > mechanical DNS routing function.
That was the intent. In 2007, during an informal discussion between some of the participants of this WG, someone asked about "d=" and "i=". The general view was to take the domain name from the "i=". d= was more of a way to identify the DNS subtree which the public key can be retrieved. There was also a long discussion on the mailing list which lead to "q=". One or more participants argued for a query infrastructure that was not DNS-based. Regards, -sm _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
