[ietf-dkim] How to reconcile passive vs active?

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Mon Aug 7 07:38:34 PDT 2006


Stephen Farrell wrote:

>
>
> Mark Delany wrote:
>
>> All indications on this list are that a good number of us think "yes",
>> so the "strong" policy position needs comprehensive coverage in your
>> requirements I-D. 
>
>
> Chair-ish quibble: I think the positions exposed on the list must of
> course be covered in reqs-00, but I also think the more words that
> are used to do that, the more disagreement we'll get. Put another way,
> I hope no-one wants to see a reqs-00 that has near as many words as
> have been posted to this list over the last couple of weeks.
>
> So s/comprehensive/adequate/ above seems better. I really hope Mike's
> draft is short and sweet, though that's a pretty tough challenge for
> him,

In fact the actual policy itself better be able to be reduced to a single
comprehensible sound bite or I think it's likely that we haven't done
our job -- if we can't state it concisely, how can we expect people
to understand hearing it for the first time whether it's something
they can use or not?

       Mike


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