[ietf-dkim] Output summary - Purported Author

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hector Santos [mailto:hsantos at isdg.net]
> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 1:55 AM
> To: SM
> Cc: Murray S. Kucherawy; Michael Thomas; ietf-dkim at mipassoc.org
> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Output summary - Purported Author
> 
> I would like to also note that RFC4871bis has added references to
> AuthRes [RFC5451] and with this official inclusion, we began to
> support it and that required code changes to the API, but it is not
> mandatory if you only stick with reporting the first three outputs
> (status, d= and i=).

It's not mandatory at all.  It's given as an example mechanism for communicating results between different pieces of the email architecture.  There is no mandate to do anything specific to support RFC5451 over any other mechanism.

> More importantly, if RFC5451 reference was compliant with DS, I would
> suggest adding a reference to RFC5585 DKIM Service Architecture is
> more justified and DS compliant and doesn't promote any current
> implementation code changes and better prepares future implementations
> with the proper DKIM output values.

Referencing RFC5451 as an example doesn't promote any current implementation code changes.

Providing a reference to RFC5585 may not be a bad idea though, and RFC4686 and RFC5863 as well.  Perhaps somewhere in Section 1?