[ietf-dkim] Seriously.

[Michael Thomas]

Barry Leiba wrote:
>> Yeah.  I'm speaking here not as DKIM working group chair, nor as DKIM 
> working group participant, but as a member of the IAB: in that capacity, 
> I would look VERY skeptically at any attempt to say that DKIM doesn't 
> have to support something that's in the RFC2822 standard, on the basis 
> that either (1) "no one uses it" or (2) "it doesn't interoperate well in 
> the first place".
> 
> I'm sympathetic to the idea that we'd like not to spend a lot of time on 
> an aspect that's pretty much never going to show up... on a "corner 
> case".  But saying that we can ignore that aspect is just not on.  I 
> would hope that Lisa or Chris, or both, would send up a DISCUSS if that 
> happened.

This debate has all of the qualities of an academic debate: why is it
so vicious? because the stakes are so low. Seriously.

		Mike