RFC 4871, "DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures", May 2007

Note: This RFC has been obsoleted by RFC 6376

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 5672

Errata ID: 1942
Status: Rejected
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Murray S. Kucherawy
Date Reported: 2009-11-11
Rejected by: Pasi Eronen
Date Rejected: 2010-03-01

Section 3.4.4 says:

The "relaxed" body canonicalization algorithm:

It should say:

The "relaxed" body canonicalization algorithm MUST apply the following 
steps in order:

Notes:

The order of the steps should be enforced, as in section 3.4.2. I have two disagreeing interpretations that have resulted in an interoperability problem (fortunately a corner case), namely:

<CRLF><CRLF><SP><SP><CRLF> should be canonicalized as what? Taken top-to-bottom, the output is the empty body; given the other pending errata, the output should be a single <CRLF>; yet another interpretation strips trailing <CRLF>s first, then does space trimming, leaving the output as <CRLF><CRLF><CRLF>.

I might further suggest changing these steps to an enumerated/ordered list instead of a list of bullet points.
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Duplicate; this issue is already covered by errata 1384.

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