> -----Original Message-----
> From: John R. Levine [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 11:39 AM
> To: Murray S. Kucherawy
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] actual practice, In the spirit of moving
> forward...
> 
> > Is anybody going to be really upset if I go that route and then work
> toward a WGLC later this year?
> 
> Nope, so long as it describes actual practice, as a BCP is supposed to
> do.

The current status is Information, which gives us a little more leeway.

> It doesn't have to be universal practice, but it really should be
> something that someone, somewhere does, so we can at least have an
> existence proof that it doesn't immediately cause massive failures.
> 
> Here's some actual practice I have observed in the wild:
> 
> - sign list mail with a list signature (Yahoo Groups, Google Groups,
>    this list, my lists)
> 
> - add and sign an A-R header describing signatures on inbound mail
> (this
>    list, Googlegroups using an X- header)
> 
> - remove signatures from incoming mail (Googlegroups, Yahoo Groups,
> this
>    list)
> 
> - keep signatures from incoming mail even if they're broken (my lists)
> 
> Anything else?

That all makes sense, and from memory I think that is what we're saying right 
now.  I'll double-check this afternoon.

-MSK

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