[ietf-dkim] DKIM vs. MIME

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Levine [mailto:johnl at iecc.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 9:55 PM
> To: ietf-dkim at mipassoc.org
> Cc: Murray S. Kucherawy
> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] DKIM vs. MIME
> 
> Although I see the point in this particular case, it seems to me that
> it would be a hopeless rathole to try to catalog and account for all
> of the semantics of every possible header line and the set of possible
> modifications to each header that do or do not make a semantic
> difference.  Looking at the RFCs, I can't tell whether the boundary
> string in Content-Type: is supposed to be case sensitive, but the
> addresses in To:, From:, Cc;, and so forth certainly are, and I
> wouldn't want to get into an argument about whether the Subject: line
> is.

That's my perspective as well.

> PS: Needless to say, this supports my observation that the number of
> list managers that don't break DKIM signature is insignificant.

For now, anyway.  It's obvious to me, though, that a lists BCP from this WG would be an extremely good idea.