[ietf-dkim] DKIM proposed charter tweak

Eric Allman eric+dkim at sendmail.org
Thu Nov 3 16:27:51 PST 2005


Hector, I like your table, but I hope you are viewing this as input 
into the working group rather than as a precondition for creating the 
working group.  And to be clear, I'm fine with including advice to 
deployers about how to react in the scope of the WG.

Like several others here, I'm concerned that we're being nudged 
toward doing an unusual amount of work before chartering.  The most 
obvious of this is the Threat Analysis, which seems to be a moving 
target with no sign that it is going to stabilize in my lifetime.  If 
we're also being told that we have to specify the verifier behavior 
as a precondition for chartering then I suspect that we'll end up 
being told to essentially write all the documents before we're 
allowed to charter.  Which is I guess one way to make it both the 
shortest and the longest WG on record simultaneously.

eric


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