[ietf-dkim] base-02: Normative order of verification steps

2006-05-31 Thread Jim Fenton
Section 6 of base-02 defines a specific order for the steps in the verification process. The last sentence of section 6 says, "Verifiers MUST apply the following steps in the order listed." I think this is too prescriptive of the verification process. Later on, it does say that some of the steps

Re: [ietf-dkim] base-02: Normative order of verification steps

2006-06-01 Thread Eric Allman
There's some place in the draft where it says "these steps must be performed such that the semantics are identical to processing them in this order" --- i.e., it makes the sequential nature be to define semantics, not to implement the code. I think that's probably appropriate here as well. e