On 05/19/2011 10:50 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > > Can anyone remember why there’s a SHOULD for the downgrade to 7-bit in > RFC4871 Section 5.3, rather than a MUST? The likelihood of breakage is > so high when sending 8-bit data that DKIM almost becomes pointless > without the upgrade. > > > Not advocating for this to be changed in –bis (yet), but someone’s > asking me for the history behind that decision. >
I don't remember the original rationale, but it would be bizarre for DKIM to hem in any future SMTP improvements/standards regarding 8 bit. Mike _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
