[ietf-dkim] ISSUE: non-ascii header text

Hector Santos hsantos at isdg.net
Wed Apr 20 11:57:18 PDT 2011


Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> Murray,
>>
>> I viewed this as another layer issue. Adding a DKIM-Signature: header
>> is no different than any other RFC5322 header where UTF8 conversion is
>> already a consideration.  But maybe to provide guidance for what parts
>> of the DKIM-Signature RFC5322 header needs to be UTF8 ready, I think
>> that might the following text is useful.
>>
>>      RFC5322 messages should be prepared with UTF-8 readiness
>>      when required. For the DKIM-Signature RFC5322 header,
>>      implementators SHOULD focus on tags d=, s= and i= to be
>>      UTF8 ready.
> 
> Is there anything that actually needs to be done with a UTF-8 header that  
> is not covered already in our DKIm spec.?

The heads up is mentioned (in an odd way), but I think John's proposal 
to define it as A-label is probably the right way.


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HLS




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