Re: [lamps] Draft addition of header protection to the LAMPS charter

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Hi John

Thanks for your feedback

On Fri, 4 Jan 2019, John R Levine wrote:

> My preference would be to leave out the prior history catalog completely.

This is not about prior history.

S/MIME Version 3.2 (RFC 5751) defines a mechanism to perform Header 
Protection, which has some implementations out there. The outcome of the 
new Charter Item on Header Protection is almost certainly going to have an 
impact on the currently standardized version and therefore to update RFC 
5751 (or rather its bis).

Although, I hope (and still believe) we can find a viable solution that 
remains backwards compatible to S/MIME Version 3.2 (i.e. minor updates and 
additions to the existing standards only), there are other proposals that 
suggest to change the way Header Protection is done in S/MIME rather 
fundamentally.

Therefore, I am of the opinion we ought to mention / reference what 
existing standards are directly going to be affected by the outcome of 
the new charter item.

cheers,
  Bernie