[ietf-dkim] Base issue: multiple linked signatures

[Charles Lindsey]

On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:38:12 -0000, Scott Kitterman  
<ietf-dkim at kitterman.com> wrote:

>> From my perspective having a message have a valid signature with one
> implementation and having a broken signature with another is an
> incompatibility.  I don't think that's speculation.  I think it's the  
> clear
> and obvious result of trying to reconstruct the original content and  
> seeing
> if a valid signature can be extracted based on a process not specified.

No, it merely reflects a difference of opinion by the sites concerned as  
to what changes it will tolerate in a message before it recommends to its  
clients that the message should be dropped. It is not the job of our  
standard to dictate local policy issues at that level of detail.

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