[ietf-dkim] Wording in draft-ietf-dkim-overview-09

Eric Allman eric+dkim at sendmail.org
Mon Mar 10 14:33:07 PDT 2008


In reviewing the documents prior to the meeting today, I noticed an 
oddity in draft-ietf-dkim-overview-09.  The intro to section 5 says 
"The MSA signs the message..." and "The MDA verifies the 
signature...".  However, this isn't necessarily true, and in fact 
conflicts with 3.1.2 (Implementation Locality), 5.2 (Signing), 5.3 
(Verifying), and 5.6 (DKIM Placement within an ADMD).

If those words are intended to be relative to just the DKIM service 
then I suggest other wording such as "DKIM Signing Agent (DSA)" and 
"DKIM Verification Agent (DVA)".

eric


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