[ietf-dkim] Draft summary of SSP functionality -v2

[Dave Crocker]

Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
> Dave Crocker wrote:
> 
>> I am asking for feedback.  I didn't ask for it to be a working group
>> item or for consensus.
> 
> Understood.
> 
>> The document attempts a factual description of SSP.  With references
>> like "rfc2822.From" it rather clearly is not a "marketing" document.
> 
> IMO its in-between.

What does that mean?  What portions or aspects of it qualify as 'non-technical 
marketing'?


> Yes. That's why I'd rather that we focus on the document, not on
> external text. If you were proposing new text for the introduction
> then it'd be right on the mark, as-is, I worry that it'll be
> distracting.

I'll repeat:  You have a working group that has demonstrated a widely 
divergent understanding of what SSP is.  That tends to undermine claims of 
real working group consensus.

You ought to welcome an exercise that could facilitate convergence of basic 
points.


>> The second point should makes it useful for me to gather comments from
>> this list, before I circulate a purportedly factual description of SSP
>> to others.
> 
> Fair enough to do that, after we have WG consensus. For now, its
> a little premature.

You think that formulating a summary statement of facts, after a couple of 
years of effort and just before Last Call is somehow premature, particularly 
when the lack of working group consensus on core decisions seems pretty evident?

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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