[ietf-dkim] More on layer violations

[Steve Atkins]

On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
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> Take a tour through the eleven parts of Section 7 of RFC5451, and then Appendices A and C.  They provide all kinds of warnings about misinterpreting the data provided, which amounts to pretty firm implementation advice, and identifies ways you can shoot yourself in the foot.  But none of those sections are normative.  (Actually there are two SHOULDs in 7.4, but in retrospect they shouldn't really be there.)
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> That's what I'm advocating here: The normative stuff defines the core mechanics of the protocol itself, and the informative stuff explains why it's done that way, detailed implementation advice including stuff about other layers, and how one should (and shouldn't) interpret the output.

+1

Cheers,
  Steve