Re: [apps-discuss] Pete Resnick's Discuss on draft-ietf-appsawg-email-auth-codes-05: (with DISCUSS)

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Tue, 05 August 2014 18:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Pete Resnick's Discuss on draft-ietf-appsawg-email-auth-codes-05: (with DISCUSS)
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Terry Zink <tzink@exchange.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>  This is a style nitpick and you can feel free to ignore. I have one
> complaint/suggestion regarding this text:
>
>
>
> Description:       This status code is returned when a message
>                           did not contain any acceptable DKIM
>                           signatures.  (Note that this violates the
>                           advice of Section 6.1 of RFC6376.)
>
>  Description:       This status code is returned when a message
>                           did not contain any acceptable DKIM
>                           signatures whose identifier(s) match the
>                           author address(es) found in the From header
>                           field.  (Note that this violates the advice
>                           of Section 6.1 of RFC6376.)  This is a
>                           special case of the X.7.20 status code.
>
>  The first two words of the phrases “Note that this violates the advice…”
> is redundant and superfluous [1]. In writing, if you have something to
> note, then note it; don’t say “Note that…” In other words, I propose the
> shorter text “This violates the advice…”.
>

Thanks for the suggestion.  If there's another version of the draft, I'll
remove it.  There's adequate discussion of what's going on in the following
section anyway.  If there's no new version, Barry can have the RFC Editor
make that adjustment if he's so inclined.

-MSK