Dave Crocker wrote in <[email protected]>: |The reasons for saying that a different name from "DKIM2" should be |chosen later are pretty straightforward, such as encouraging focus on |the 'more important technical stuff' and not getting distracted. | |Those reasons are wrong. | |There is already vigorous industry marketing happening for "DKIM2" now. |It is the term everyone is using. Now. | |If there is a goal of having a different name -- and there really does |need to be that goal, since the things being pursued are not DKIM --
I could not disagree more. Because DKIM is DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures [.] (DKIM) permits a person, role, or organization that owns the signing domain to claim some responsibility for a message by associating the domain with the message. And for the first time this statement will be true even for mailing-list and other mutations. For the first time the actual recipients on the SMTP level will be "locked" in addition. So the domain's claim is much stronger than ever! This is a real iteration towards something better. |then every day of delay is a day that works against the goal. If there is not "insight" and "outsight" because other people already make a lot of wind, then i would vote for EDKIM, because with ACDC that is DKIM v1 it would require toggling only a single byte (prepending an 'E') to the signature, whereas with DKIM2 five bytes would have to be moved. With the other (non-DKIMv1) approach all the software has to be thrown away anyway, so that is that. |<Anec: | | Circa 1970, I worked as a part-time operator at a large computer | center at UCLA. IBM 360/91. It had main memory modules that were | 6' x 2' x 4'. Big guys with about 256KB per module. Huge, for the | day. And expensive. | | IBM called a module Basic Operating Memory. | | Until they got a call from the FBI. | | The Feds were unhappy with the name because IBM would air freight | these around and it was disconcerting to the airport shipping staff | to have IBM call and asked whether their BOM (bomb) had arrived yet. | | So IBM changed the name to Basic Storage Module. | | The short-form reference to this was BOM. | | Because that's what the reference had always been. | |:dote> | |Please. | |Now. | |Not later. | |d/ | |-- |Dave Crocker | |Brandenburg InternetWorking |bbiw.net |bluesky: @dcrocker.bsky.social |mast: @[email protected] --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ Ietf-dkim mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
