[ietf-dkim] DKIM charter

[Tony Hansen]

Eric, a couple of incompatible changes have already been identified that
have been deemed to be "necessary for the success of the
specifications". So the barrier has already been broken. While your
concerns are valid in theory, I don't think they will be a problem in
practice.

	Tony Hansen
	tony at att.com

Eric Rescorla wrote:
> Barry Leiba <leiba at watson.ibm.com> writes:
> 
>>Since experimentation resulted in significant Internet deployment of these
>>specifications, the DKIM working group will make every reasonable attempt to
>>keep changes compatible with what is deployed, making incompatible changes
>>only when they are necessary for the success of the specifications.
> 
> I'm generally comfortable with this charter, but not really with this.
> "necessary for the success of the specifications" seems like a very
> high bar to clear. While I appreciate that there's a desire by many members
> of the WG to avoid making incompatible changes (hence this language),
> to the extent to which that desire reflects consensus, those
> changes won't be made anyway. I don't believe it's appropriate to
> rule discussion of changes which might be important but not
> "necesssary" out of scope in the charter.