[ietf-dkim] Base issue: multiple linked signatures
Hallam-Baker, Phillip
pbaker at verisign.com
Wed Dec 27 16:02:17 PST 2006
> From: John L [mailto:johnl at iecc.com]
> > Its not enforceable as it is at the option of the receiver and so
> > cannot be a MUST NOT, it could be a SHOULD NOT.
>
> Seems to me this is a semantic niggle. People can implement
> whatever variant form of whatever spec they want to, but if
> they want to interoperate and implement the signature
> validation that DKIM specifies, that have to use the current
> values of the headers.
Semantics is from the Greek, it means 'meaning'.
There is no part of writing a standard that is not a semantic exercise.
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