On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Barry Leiba <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> This is a pretty classic case of avoiding a problematic Discuss, through
>>> an easy expedient.
>>
>> If YAM WG participants view it as such a case, they can voice their concern.
>
> It seems to me, SM, that that's exactly what's happening.
>
>> Dave suggested the following text:
>>
>>   "Message modification can affect the validity of an existing message
>>    signature, such as by DKIM [DKIM], PGP [RFC4880], and can render the
>>    signature invalid.  This, in turn, can affect message handling by later
>>    receivers, such as filtering engines that consider the presence or
>>    absence of a signature"
>
> And I think that text is good.  I support changing the text to this,
> and telling Russ that the WG is strongly in favour of having this in
> there.  (And I'm not in favour of SM's suggested change to it.)
>
> Having text such as this is important:
> This is a common case, where something needs to progress on the
> standards track, but something else has come along in the interim that
> (1) does not change the existing protocol that's progressing, but (2)
> implementors of the existing protocol now need to be aware of.
>
> We're not changing the protocol, but it's critical that anyone looking
> at the new Message Submission spec be aware of its effect on
> signatures.  We MUST NOT remove this alert.

+1 (that means Dave modified text is OK with me)


-- 
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA
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