Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-23 Thread Hector Santos
Dave CROCKER wrote: ?> In Section 5.8: "DKIM-aware authoring MLMs MUST sign the mail they send according to the regular signing guidelines given in [DKIM]. One concern is that having an MLM apply its signature to unsigned mail might cause some verifiers or receivers to interpret

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-23 Thread SM
At 11:03 23-05-2011, Dave CROCKER wrote: Then you are using criteria that go beyond the requirements of a BCP. From RFC 2026: "5. BEST CURRENT PRACTICE (BCP) RFCs The BCP subseries of the RFC series is designed to be a way to standardize practices and the results of communi

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-23 Thread John Levine
> Nothing in the definition of BCPs require that it be limited to > covering existing practice. Well, other than the naive assumption that something called a Best Current Practices would in fact document best current practices. But since this argument seems to be all about proving that we've foll

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-23 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/13/2011 12:15 AM, SM wrote: Although one can extrapolate from experience and provide some guidance, I would not call it "Best Current Practices". I suggest a change to that sentence: Based on deployment experience with DKIM, this document provides guidance for the use of DKIM w