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Re: [dnsext] Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 25 April 2013 17:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dnsext] Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE
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> Wait; support for the SPF RRType would have involved changes in provisioning systems, so instead the decision was to use TXT RRTypes which involved changes in provisioning systems?
>
> Awesome. :-)

Sheesh.  The changes were a lot less, and were a lot easier to explain 
since everyone with even the most cursory familiarity with DNS knows 
what TXT records are.

Meow,
John

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