[ietf-dkim] Re: dkim-base-01 nits and semi-nits

[Eric Allman]

>>> Section 1.3 seems like it should say something about DKIM's
>>> scalability characteristics, not just that of email, since the
>>> other 1.x sections are describing DKIM in various ways.
>>
>> Hmm....  It also says that the any-to-any characteristic is
>> important, which might not be true for other services.  Any
>> suggested wording?
>
> How about something like this:
>
> DKIM is designed to support the extreme scalability requirements
> which characterize the email identification problem.  There are
> currently over 70 million domains and a much larger number of
> individual addresses.  DKIM seeks to preserve the positive aspects
> of the current email infrastructure, such as the ability for anyone
> to communicate with anyone else without introduction.

Great, thanks.

>>> Section 3.1 The INFORMATIVE IMPLEMENTERS' NOTE seems like it would
>>> fit better later in the document such as section 3.6.
>>
>> I couldn't quite get this to flow very well.  It doesn't belong
>> under "Textual Representation" or "DNS binding" because the point
>> is independent of how the record is represented or delivered.  It
>> just doesn't seem to "fit" in the overview.  Perhaps I'm missing
>> something.
>
> I'm not sure of the solution to this either.  It just seemed like
> it was a little early to discuss that sort of key/selector
> management detail right after having introduced the concept of
> selectors themselves.

Now I understand.  As an attempt to make 3.1 flow better, I moved 
this note to the very end of the section.

eric