[ietf-dkim] Re: DKIM BOF -- draft charter and agenda

[Ned Freed]

> Time for the next pass, after input from several of you, on and off the
> list, and input from Russ as well.  The attached version covers pretty
> much everything, and I think we might be done with the charter now.
> Can we close on this, and work up an agenda for the BOF?

What you have looks fine to me. I note that Dave has suggested smushing
together the first to paragraphs to form a workable "abstract"; it's a tad
too long but I can live with it.

> The only significant comment that I think I haven't done anything about
> is from Ned: you suggested including words about canonicalization and
> hashing, along with those about public-key crypto.  I decided that the
> reference to p-k crypto is sufficient to specify the mechanism in the
> charter (distinguishing it, for instance, from looking at IP addresses,
> or the Farmer's Almanac), and that getting into "we canonicalize the
> message, take a hash of that, digitally sign that, put the result into
> the header..." is really what the spec is for.  So I left that as it
> was.  If you *really* think mentioning c<237>n and hashing is very
> important for the charter, please bring it up again.

I certainly have no problem with omitting it.

				Ned