Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-23 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/13/2011 12:15 AM, SM wrote: Although one can extrapolate from experience and provide some guidance, I would not call it Best Current Practices. I suggest a change to that sentence: Based on deployment experience with DKIM, this document provides guidance for the use of DKIM

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-23 Thread John Levine
Nothing in the definition of BCPs require that it be limited to covering existing practice. Well, other than the naive assumption that something called a Best Current Practices would in fact document best current practices. But since this argument seems to be all about proving that we've

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-23 Thread SM
At 11:03 23-05-2011, Dave CROCKER wrote: Then you are using criteria that go beyond the requirements of a BCP. From RFC 2026: 5. BEST CURRENT PRACTICE (BCP) RFCs The BCP subseries of the RFC series is designed to be a way to standardize practices and the results of

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-23 Thread Hector Santos
Dave CROCKER wrote: ? In Section 5.8: DKIM-aware authoring MLMs MUST sign the mail they send according to the regular signing guidelines given in [DKIM]. One concern is that having an MLM apply its signature to unsigned mail might cause some verifiers or receivers to interpret

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-22 Thread ned+ietf
2. Should this be Informational or BCP? a: BCP, making it clear when we're insufficiently certain about something. Last Call will sort out any objections. Well, I couldn't afford to go, so I can't say you're wrong, and I don't know why I didn't see that on the list. I

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-21 Thread John R. Levine
As chair, I can say that consensus was to make this normative, not experimental. With the best will in the world, I was there, and I saw no such consensus. The closest thing I can find in a quick search of the archive is this note, which says that the group agreed on one thing (that lists

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-21 Thread Barry Leiba
As chair, I can say that consensus was to make this normative, not experimental. With the best will in the world, I was there, and I saw no such consensus. We discussed it live at IETF 80, and I posted the following minutes to the mailing list on 28 March: 3. Discussion of mailinglists

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-21 Thread John R. Levine
2. Should this be Informational or BCP? a: BCP, making it clear when we're insufficiently certain about something. Last Call will sort out any objections. Well, I couldn't afford to go, so I can't say you're wrong, and I don't know why I didn't see that on the list. I guess on

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-16 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
There's no need to change the current language. RFCs have been referring to cron jobs since 1997. Actually since 1991, see below jaap % cd ~/library/rfc-editor/in-notes % grep -w cron * rfc1244.txt:- Checks all commands in the /etc/rc files and cron

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-16 Thread J.D. Falk
On May 15, 2011, at 9:42 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: The author can be a human using an MUA (Mail User Agent) or an automated mail robot with an MTA. I don't see that automated mail robot with an MTA is right at all. But I see what you're getting at, and I'd support a change such as

RE: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-16 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
-Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of J.D. Falk Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 5:35 AM To: IETF list; DKIM List Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP I don't see

RE: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-15 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
-Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Hector Santos Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 5:00 PM To: ietf-d...@mipassoc.org Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-15 Thread John R. Levine
I think it's best to have an example. cron seems to be an ideal one, though I'd be happy to add a second, Windows-specific, example if there is one. If not, changing 'such as cron' to 'such as the cron UNIX utility' seems a better change to me. Anyone who's ever managed a Unix or linux

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-15 Thread Barry Leiba
What is cron? and how does it interface with the originator defined as the MSA?  is cron an MTA or MUA? ... It was a rhetorical question.  I don't think its necessary and IMO, unprecedented. I'd be very surprised to find that mention of cron in an RFC is unprecedented. Maybe I'll download

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-15 Thread John R. Levine
I'd be very surprised to find that mention of cron in an RFC is unprecedented. Maybe I'll download the RFC set, have Google do a word index on it, and see. RFCs 2123, 2839, 4833, and 5427 refer to cron and cron jobs. There may be others, but I found those with a simple grep. (If anyone was

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-14 Thread SM
Hi Murray, At 11:17 13-05-2011, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: By my read, the bulk of your comments fall into these categories: (1) Remove the normative language, publish as Informational As I said to John, I'd be fine with this. The document started out as Informational but there was working

RE: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-14 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
: draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-10.txt (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP Ideally, if Murray wishes to support Jeff McDonald's Anti-Spam ID that is intended to update RFC3463, he might use (since this is all new anyway): 554 5.8.0 Undefined Policy detail 554 5.8.1 Message refused