[ietf-dkim] Output summary - proposing ODID "Originating Domain Identity"

[Michael Thomas]

On 05/04/2011 02:11 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
> On 05/04/2011 01:57 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>    
>> And who gets to define "appropriate"?
>>
>> It's already been pointed out that we could list every current tag's value and a pile of other stuff to pass on to the next layer, which may or may not find it useful, but that would make for an extremely messy protocol.
>>
>> Protocols need to be kept simple.
>>
>>
>>      
> 4871 was simpler yet: it had no notion of an "output". It relied on the
> developer to consider what was appropriate to deliver up the food
> chain.
>    

I should also expand that this entire situation started with Crocker
insisting that we must "choose" between between i= and d=
as The Output. It was a false dilemma then, and it remains
a false dilemma. And as with all false dilemmas it only causes
heat instead of light.

Mike