On 2/1/25 12:56 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
On 1/25/2025 4:00 PM, Richard Clayton wrote:
... the notion
that allowing a choice of relaxed or simple for bodies means that people
have to engineer for both -- that's exotic
Right. Everyone must use ASCII, because allowing Unicode would be
exotic. Everyone must use all uppercase, because mixed case is
exotic. And all email must be in English, because using other
languages is exotic.
Or maybe it is OK to start with some flexibility, when there was no
operational history to give a clear sense of what is needed, and the
desire was to permit some exploration.
Just as it is fine to use the experience to later converge on more
restriction in choice.
That's a process that isn't exotic. It's mature.
Which calling the original arrangement exotic isn't.
IIRC, when we changed the folding-ws algorithm to relaxed, Murray and I
had it up and running in a couple of days. I feel sorry for engineers
who think other engineers are this incompetent. We're not. And I wasn't
even in favor of the change, but you know -- suck it up buttercup. An
engineer who hasn't learned "it depends" in real life is... well, I'll
leave that for the reader.
I hope we can agree that Van Gogh's Starry Night is legitimately exotic
and other worldly if we need to talk about exotic. DKIM's choices were
not "exotic". They were ordinary and the product of a consensus driven
process.
Mike
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