Re: WG Review: Domain Keys Identified Mail (dkim)

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Ted.


It has an effect on the technical work of the IETF, by creating a new mechanism
in this space.

1. Not really.

2. This has been discussed to death, over the last 5 months. Is there something about it that you did not understand?

3. What effect is it going to have on other IETF technical work? Again, Ted, it sure would be helpful for you to cite specifics rather than abstractions, since it is specifics that the IETF delivers.


Describing what it makes it better/different/more appropriate helps
those who will interpret or re-use these pieces understand why they might choose
to re-use them or avoid doing so.

Ahh. So you would like every new effort to produce a document that records every detail of a group's decision process? Well, yes, that would certainly be a good disincentive for ever trying to get work done in the IETF. A working group would be assured of spending all of its time trying to satisfy these abstract debates -- and never knowing whether it would succeed -- rather than getting to deliver technical specifications.

Oh, that's what we already seem to be, these days.

Oh, you don't want it for *all* new efforts, just those doing anything that in any way relates to prior work?

Hmmm.  Actually, that's most IETF work.


Saying "this is a point solution" or "this is a replacement for $FOO,
and here's why we chose to replace it" is relevant to the

The nature and purpose of DKIM is stated in the DKIM spec. It says neither of the things you have stated.

So we are now wandering around in territory that appears to have nothing to do with DKIM.


people who will read and use the specifications. It's relevant to the
IETF, in other words, as well as a broader community.>

It's probably more relevant to the IETF community to show that we can get useful work done in a timely manner.

Your re-raising old topics and arguing for conceptual discussion seems rather counter-productive to that end.

regards,

d/
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