[ietf-dkim] "interoperability"???

[Dave Crocker]

Jim Fenton wrote:
> Hinestly, I struggled a bit with whether to use the term 
> interoperability there.
> 
> The point I'm trying to make is that the normative text should be 
> sufficient for different implementations to return the same result under 
> the same test conditions.  If we were to have an ADSP "bake-off", one of 
> the test conditions might be to report the result when given a 
> non-existent domain.
> 
> I think that this is a valid test case, and that implementations should 
> produce the same result.


So your issue is with wanting to ensure that different implementations use the 
result of the test in the same way.

Assuming I now do understand your point, I think my original question is fully 
answered.  Thanks.

However...

I still find myself not understanding how any of this makes a difference to 
the real-world utility of ADSP.

For example, let's say that a receiver chooses either not to do the NXDomain 
test or chooses to process the result differently than the document specificies.

Exactly what terrible outcome does this produce?

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net