> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hector Santos [mailto:hsan...@isdg.net]
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 9:25 AM
> To: Murray S. Kucherawy
> Cc: DKIM List
> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] MLM and C14N
> 
> > This is a software problem,
> 
> You mean the MLM who is ignorant of DKIM meta data for the past "40
> years?"

Yes, that's what I mean.

> > not something that needs to be solved by creating a protocol
> extension.
> 
> Isn't that what you are doing in this MLM I-D, creating a DKIM
> "protocol extension" for MLMs?

No, that's not what that document does.

Creating a new canonicalization is a protocol extension.  It creates a slippery 
slope wherein we are constantly creating or adjusting canonicalization 
algorithm(s) to deal with new cases we find and want to accommodate.  It's a 
bad idea.


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