On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 6:09 PM Dave Crocker <[email protected]> wrote:

>  DKIM was a synthesis within the IETF of two things (DomainKeys and IIM)
> that started outside.  It underwent significant evolution in the IETF --
> not once, but twice.
>
> Actually, it wasn't.
>
> The constituent parts were separately proposed, during the same initial
> IETF discussions, and the IETF said to go away and come back after
> reconciliation.  That work was done by an ad hoc industry team and there
> was a complete spec and initial implementations before the IETF was again
> approached.
>
Yep, I still have the t-shirt.

> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-allman-dkim-base-00
>
> (and note that in the working group field on the title page, it says
> "pre-MASS"...)
>
> The work in the IETF was a refinement of a complete, integrated spec.
>
But it was quite a bit of refinement -- I would even say 'evolution" -- in
comparison to how little SPF and DMARC changed before publication.

-MSK
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