[ietf-dkim] Proposal: Removal of AUID (i= tag/value)

Hector Santos hsantos at isdg.net
Fri Apr 1 15:03:43 PDT 2011


Just trying to "connect the dots."

SM wrote:
> Hi Hector,
> At 11:18 01-04-2011, Hector Santos wrote:
>> Off hand, and I have to go back, I believe seeing some systems using
>> Authetication-Results to always include a i= as part of its A-R header
>> result whether it was defined or not and when not, a default value is
>> displayed.  For example, this is the A-R result for my signature into
>> this IETF-DKIM list:
>>
>>     Authentication-Results: sbh17.songbird.com;
>>         dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.i=@isdg.net
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> Does that mean, a proposal to remove i= in DKIM-BASE, would imply an
>> update to the A-R draft is necessary?
> 
> RFC 5451 is a proposed standard.  It is not a product of the DKIM WG.  
> It's up to the author of that RFC to see whether an update is necessary.
> 
> Regards,
> -sm
> 
> 

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