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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

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 26 August 2013 14:49 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: 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
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Sorry if that last one came across as dismissive.

> Until such time, I'd personally prefer to see some explicit notion that
> the odd history of the SPF TXT record should not be seen as a precedent
> and best practice, rather than hope that this is implicit.

I'd have thought that the debate here and elsewhere already documented 
that.  Since it's not specific to SPF, perhaps we could do a draft on 
"overloaded TXT considered harmful" to get it into the RFC record.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.

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