[ietf-dkim] Take two (was Re: Proposal for new text about multiple header issues)

Murray S. Kucherawy msk at cloudmark.com
Tue Oct 26 10:08:04 PDT 2010


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-dkim-bounces at mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-bounces at mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Alessandro Vesely
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 2:59 AM
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> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Take two (was Re: Proposal for new text about multiple header issues)
> 
> On 26/Oct/10 06:58, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> > a verifying module might return a syntax error code or arrange not to
> > return a positive result even if the signature technically validates.
> 
> -1.  How does "might" differ from "MAY"?

In a bunch of ways.  In particular, though, it is deliberately not RFC2119 language, partly because that's not generally done in Security Considerations since that section is discussion (informative) rather than protocol (normative).




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