[ietf-dkim] LWSP in base64-encoded public key TXT RR

Eric Allman eric+dkim at sendmail.org
Thu Mar 8 11:43:33 PST 2007


I didn't include the last sentence at first, but it looked so ... 
naked.  On the other hand, it does sort of say "people reading this 
spec should actually read it," which is indeed rather silly.

I can go either way on it.

eric



--On March 8, 2007 2:31:41 PM -0500 Scott Kitterman 
<ietf-dkim at kitterman.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 08 March 2007 14:07, Eric Allman wrote:
>> I'm thinking of the following addition to the p= description in
>> 3.6.1:
>>
>> INFORMATIVE NOTE: A base64string is permitted to include white
>> space (LWSP) at arbitrary places; however, any CRLFs must be
>> followed by at least one WSP character.  Implementors and
>> administrators are cautioned to ensure that selector TXT records
>> conform to this specification.
>>
>> eric
> To the extent I understand the issue, I think this makes sense, but
> I don't  see value added in the last sentence since the whole point
> of the spec is to  be able to conform to it.  I'd suggest deleting
> the last sentence.
>
> Scott K
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