Re: WG Review: Domain Keys Identified Mail (dkim)

[Eric Rescorla <ekr at networkresonance.com>]

> Since experimentation resulted in significant Internet deployment
> of these specifications, the DKIM working group will make every
> reasonable attempt to keep changes compatible with what is
> deployed, making incompatible changes only when they are necessary
> for the success of the specifications.

As I argued on the DKIM working group list, I think this text is a bad
idea. Part of IETF having change control of a specification is having
the ability to make changes, and the bar of "necessary to the success of
the specification" is way too high for that. Note that I'm not
suggesting that the WG shouldn't consider compatibility, merely that it
shouldn't be effectively prohibited by charter from making incompatible
improvements.

-Ekr





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