Re: [Dcrup] draft-ietf-dcrup-dkim-usage and document shepherds

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>>Given that we are nowhere close to deciding what elliptic algorithm(s)
>>to add, it seems kind of premature to me.
>
>Why would that matter?  This draft just gets rid of the obsolete cruft.  It clears the deck for adding a new
>algorithm, but in no way requires we have that sorted out.

I had the perhaps overoptimistic hope that we could wrap up the new
algorithm reasonably quickly and update DKIM once rather than twice.

There is a significant cost to each RFC, both in what it costs to
produce it, and to people's attention in the future.  The more places
you spread around the spec, the more likely it is that people will
miss part of it.

If it's going to take us another year to decide which elliptic curve
to use and whether to add key hashes, then OK, we can push this out
now, but I hope we can do better than that.

R's,
John