[ietf-dkim] over-the-wire (in)compatibility between pre-IETF DKIM and (eventual) IETF DKIM

[Dave Crocker]

Oh drat!

I just posted a half-written response and did not mean to.  Please just 
ignore it.  I want to talk with Stephen offline before burdening the 
list with more of this exchange.

A thousand apollogies.

d/

Dave Crocker wrote:
>
>>
>>>>> Is it ok with folks to be required to replace essentially all of 
>>>>> the current software, administration and user deployment?
>>>>
>>>> That's three things.
>>>
>>> right.  bigger impact.  that was my point. ensuring upward 
>>> compatibility for an installed base can get messy.
>>
>> Nope. I meant that you conflated the three things, thus allowing a
>> careless reader to get confused and end up believing that a change
>> affecting one must affect all three.
>
> The question was intended to ask about a limit of impact.  Affecting 
> all 3 would be the upper limit.  Complete change.  I was not trying to 
> do a detailed questionnaire, asking about each increment of change 
> that would be acceptable.
>
>
>> I think its worth avoiding such
>> potential confusion, 
>
> ahh, well.  avoiding confusion is almost always useful...