> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Resnick [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 3:40 PM
> To: Murray S. Kucherawy
> Cc: Message Abuse Report Format working group
> Subject: Re: [marf] DISCUSS on draft-ietf-marf-redaction-04
> 
> Sorry for not getting back to you earlier; tied up in meetings all
> afternoon. But you did hear back from Stephen: This would address his
> concerns. This way, you're not saying that H is a good idea for
> redaction without explaining the limited meaning of "redaction" that
> this document anticipates. I would like to see a "MAY" appear somewhere
> in section 3 of your proposed text to indicate that the choice of
> algorithm is a protocol option. (E.g., "An implementation MAY choose
> one of ROT13, CRC32, MD5, H, HMAC, or any transformation that has a
> reasonably low likelihood of collision...blah...blah...blah..."). And I
> think you're likely to need references for the example algorithms you
> do give, and maybe a a quick line about the features of each, (e.g.,
> "ROT13 (manually invertible, but visually obscure), CRC32 (invertible
> by code, but not simply by a human), ..."). But I think this is
> perfectly reasonable.

(Oops, wasn't quite done yet.)

I'm not clear on the suggestion about MAY.  We already present the choice; a 
MAY here would mean you can opt not to do any of these, which isn't redaction 
at all, and this whole memo doesn't apply.
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