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

Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> Wed, 21 August 2013 14:14 UTC

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On Tue 20/Aug/2013 07:27:12 +0200 David Conrad wrote:
> On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:14 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>>
>> one lesson i might take from this is, if i want to deploy a new
>> hack which needs an rrtype, not to use txt in the interim.

Nor the same format, IMHO.

> My personal belief is that the rationale to migrate away from TXT
> remains valid and the appropriate course of action is to fix the 
> migration strategy, not permanently encode what everyone agrees is a 
> hack into a proposed standard.

Normally, it's easier to have new births than to revive dead horses.

The proposed standard is what currently works.  By the time DKIM keys
are transmitted in binary, SPF will have a better spec too.

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