> Do you know what is being asked? I think everyone understands what you're asking. They just disagree, and so do I.
When all this started, before DKIM came to the IETF, and then again afterward, we spent a *lot* of time looking at the canonicalization algorithms -- and they were changed a bit after the work came into the IETF. We didn't come by them casually. Throughout it, there were a few goals in choosing canonicalization algorithms: 1. We didn't want more than one or two. This obviously never did nor never should take precedence over a true need for another one, but the idea is that the bar needs to be very high for a new one. The combinatorics get messy. 2. We wanted to cover the vast majority of the cases, though we knew there'd always be outlying situations where some mail would get broken because what we had didn't *quite* cover some other case. We decided to accept that. 3. We absolutely did *not* want to go adding new algorithms for this or that piece of software that was getting something wrong. Canonicalization algorithms were *not* designed to work around broken software. They're meant to deal primarily with legitimate, if sometimes unfortunate, changes that get made to the mail along the way, and secondarily with *very common* situations that creep into the questionable area. > A real live LIST organism (stream) is adding an extra line (two bytes, > <CR><LF>) after the header and before the body probably all its life It's an outlier, off in the weeds. This is not a common situation all around the Internet. And in any case, the MLM document isn't the place to define a new algorithm. > This is surreal. Don't shoot the messenger, listen to the message! There's nothing surreal here, and, again, I ask you to stop being extreme and inflammatory. Calm discussion, please. Anyway, we *are* listening to the message. It seems that at least five people have listened, and responded. Their response is simply one of disagreement. Listening is not the same as agreeing. Six. I also disagree. Barry _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html