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

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Wed, 16 January 2019 23:10 UTC

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

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:34:56AM -0700, Grant Taylor wrote:
> 
> However I feel like rejecting things because of additional white space (in
> front of v=...) or the wrong case is being a little bit pedantic.

I want to point out, because it's making me extremely itchy, that the
DNS itself did this for years.  One result is that vendors are about
to have a flag day in which a whole bunch of things are deprecated at
once in an effort to get rid of a lot of cruft.

Vendors are going to have a difficult time rejecting any heuristic
improvements if some of them work.  Already it is hard for DNS
providers to process these records because they're all TXT and the
semantics of the RRTYPE say that anything is allowed.  So I think
stricter implementations overall are probably the better path to
interoperability here, even if that hurts in the immediate term.

A

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