[ietf-dkim] Which tags are required?

Dave Crocker dhc at dcrocker.net
Tue Jul 18 11:32:37 PDT 2006



Paul Hoffman wrote:

>> "If any tag listed as 'required' in Section 3.5 is missing from the
>> DKIM-Signature header field, the verifier [...]."
> 
> I would prefer "Unless every tag listed here is included in..."

That casts the language as a negative (or exceptional, or the like.)  Humans do
a better job of comprehendingaffirmative forms better that exceptional,
exclusionary, or negative forms.


> And I really would prefer the list be here, not manually culled from 3.5
> by each reader of the spec.

+1.

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  Dave Crocker
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