[ietf-dkim] 1193 considered harmful

[Dave Crocker]

> In fact, as I recall at the Cisco DKIM summit, the recommendation for
> those wanting to experiment with implementations now was to use
> allman-01 as the draft was expected to be in a state of flux and have
> a number of further refinements over coming versions. In short,
> everyone was expecting that it would change as the WG moved focus from
> threats to base.

Mark,

There is a difference between noting that the IETF specification is in flux, 
versus predicting that the IETF will produce a final specification that breaks 
the ability to have a signer who uses the pre-ietf spec be validated by an 
implementor of the post-ietf draft.

So far, we have not modified DKIM to cause this breakage.  The current proposal 
will cause this breakage.

We should not break the pre-ietf to post-ietf interoperability without extremely 
good cause.

d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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