[ietf-dkim] Charter bashing...

Dave Crocker dhc at dcrocker.net
Wed Oct 12 15:04:10 PDT 2005


>>
>> IETF is currently a three round deal. In the near future it may be
>> reduced to two rounds. I think we can add the additional ciphers in at
>> the DRAFT standard stage without introducing delay.
>
> Most WGs (S/MIME, PKIX, TLS) seem to do this via additional RFCs. Not
> sure why but it does seem to be easiest that way when you have to do
> it.

Elevation to Draft Standard permits *removing* text that was in the 
Proposed version, but does not permit *adding* semantics.

As you imply, extensibility is achieved by defining a table and 
permitting new specification documents to register new entries in the table.

d/


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