Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis-19.txt> (Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in Email, Version 1) to Proposed Standard

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 02 September 2013 13:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis-19.txt> (Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in Email, Version 1) to Proposed Standard
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>The engineering solution to this deployment problem is to generalize the
>problem and use a new record for that.

Either that or figure out how to make it easy enough to deploy new
RRTYPEs that people are willing to do so.

The type number is 16 bits, after all.  We're not in any danger of running out.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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