Re: [dmarc-ietf] Nitpicky questions about DMARC record syntax

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 16 January 2019 15:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Nitpicky questions about DMARC record syntax
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> The formal specification is quite clear on both of your questions:
>
>   Section 6.4:
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>   dmarc-version   = "v" *WSP "=" *WSP %x44 %x4d %x41 %x52 %x43 %x31
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> which means that the white space is required to be allowed and the value in 
> this tag-value is case sensitive.

Thanks, but the white space in question is before the "v".

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John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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