Re: [Mailman-Users] A rant on parsing RFCs

2017-10-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ruben Safir writes: > RFCs are a record of a process. Partially true. The process almost invariably leaves its trace in the text, and (as in any committee work) many compromises are inexplicable without reference to the process. But the text of an RFC is a specification, not a narrative. > U

Re: [Mailman-Users] A rant on parsing RFCs

2017-10-23 Thread Ruben Safir
On 10/23/2017 12:57 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users writes: > > > RFC 6377 - DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Mailing Lists, > > disagrees with you. (RFC 6377 is also currently known as BCP 167.) > > tl;dr version: RFC 5598 (non-normative but authoritative

[Mailman-Users] A rant on parsing RFCs

2017-10-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users writes: > RFC 6377 - DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Mailing Lists, > disagrees with you. (RFC 6377 is also currently known as BCP 167.) tl;dr version: RFC 5598 (non-normative but authoritative) disagrees with you. In practice, the mailing list *decides*