On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:09:53 -0000, Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/Jan/11 21:58, Dave CROCKER wrote: >> Here's the proposal that Barry just announced, for splitting the DKIM >> specification into a DKIM-specific portion and an underlying, more >> generic >> portion that could be re-purposed for other services. It's current >> working >> acronym is DOSETA. > > I'm embarrassed to raise such a trivial issue, but couldn't it be done > the other way around? That is, keep the name DKIM for the core spec > and invent some other name for its application to RFC 5322. This way > > * the "DKIM-Signature" name remains fully justified, Interesting possibility. If the split goes as planned, then the signature for the FOOBAR protocol will be "FOOBAR-Signature", although its internal structure and many/most of its tags will be the same. I can see advantages in either method. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: [email protected] snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
