[ietf-dkim] detecting header mutations after signing

[Dave CROCKER]

On 10/8/2010 9:28 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> I'm still cringing at the layering violation of "fixing" in DKIM the fact that many RFC5322 implementations, MTAs, MSAs and MUAs alike, don't bother to enforce normative portions of that specification.
>
> Is there precedent of this being done elsewhere, i.e. compensating in one protocol for abundant lousy implementations of a layer below it?


I'm a bit confused.

We want to re-submit DKIM Signing to Proposed Standard, in order to fix an edge 
condition that is only a theoretical issue and only fixes a problem that is 
actually outside of the scope of what DKIM is trying to achieve?

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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