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Aug 17, 2011, 5:49 PM


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Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE [In reply to]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Julian Mehnle <julian [at] mehnle> wrote:
> Frank Ellermann wrote:
>
>> [...] it is clearly something that should be addressed in 4408bis:
>>
>> Apparently nobody intends to eliminate the ugly TXT abuse in v=spf1,
>> because it's years too late to try it, or IOW, the wannabe-experiment
>> failed to fix this.
>>
>> Possible ways to improve that situation in 4408bis:
>>
>> 1 - try the SHOULD type 99 approach again, a PS could succeed where
>>     an "experiment" failed.
>> 2 - give up, note that TXT is ugly but can't be changed, and that
>>     now is the time to drop SPF type 99 for the purposes of v=spf1.
>> 3 - explain that practical EDNS0 limits could affect TXT where type
>>     99 still works, but that trying both queries simultaneously and
>>     pick the first answer is perfectly okay.
>>
>> I didn't look into RFC 4408 for some years, but IIRC (3) is allowed,
>> or isn't it?
>
> (3) is exactly what RFC 4408 already says.
>
> I don't see any benefit in changing that in 4408bis.
>
> I think RR type 99 won't be very useful in v=spf3 because using the TXT
> type with a name prefix (_spf) is clearly a better approach.
>
> -Julian
>
>
>

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More about the SPF RRTYPE msk at cloudmark Aug 15, 2011, 12:06 PM
    Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz at gmail Aug 15, 2011, 1:00 PM
        Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE dotzero at gmail Aug 17, 2011, 7:25 PM
        RE: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE msk at cloudmark Aug 18, 2011, 10:31 AM
        Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE scott at kitterman Aug 18, 2011, 11:37 AM
            Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE julian at mehnle Aug 19, 2011, 2:40 PM
            Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE spfdiscuss at alandoherty Aug 19, 2011, 3:33 PM
            Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz at gmail Aug 19, 2011, 5:02 PM
        Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz at gmail Aug 19, 2011, 4:31 PM
        Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE scott at kitterman Aug 20, 2011, 6:49 AM
            Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz at gmail Aug 20, 2011, 9:06 PM
            RE: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE msk at cloudmark Aug 20, 2011, 11:20 PM
        Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE vesely at tana Aug 24, 2011, 3:52 AM
    Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE dotzero at gmail Aug 15, 2011, 1:13 PM
    Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE vesely at tana Aug 16, 2011, 2:00 AM
        Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz at gmail Aug 17, 2011, 9:49 AM
        Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE stuart at bmsi Aug 17, 2011, 11:03 AM
            Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE stuart at bmsi Aug 17, 2011, 12:09 PM
    Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE julian at mehnle Aug 17, 2011, 4:00 PM
        Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE dotzero at gmail Aug 17, 2011, 5:49 PM
        Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE alex at vandenbogaerdt Aug 17, 2011, 7:18 PM
    Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE julian at mehnle Aug 17, 2011, 8:09 PM
        Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE alex at vandenbogaerdt Aug 17, 2011, 8:58 PM
    Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE julian at mehnle Aug 19, 2011, 2:21 PM
        Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE WebMaster at Commerco Aug 19, 2011, 3:32 PM
            Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz at gmail Aug 19, 2011, 5:12 PM
    Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE julian at mehnle Aug 19, 2011, 2:35 PM
        Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE stuart at bmsi Aug 21, 2011, 7:11 PM

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