Re: [secdir] draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis-14

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

Hi Phillip,
At 09:58 26-04-2013, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's
>ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the
>IESG.  These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the
>security area directors.  Document editors and WG chairs should treat
>these comments just like any other last call comments.
>
>
>The document is clear and describes the SPF mechanism effectively. 
>The only quibble that I could find is that repeated mentions are 
>made of limiting the number of 'DNS queries' without specifying 
>whether these are individual queries or recursive. The count will 
>come out rather differently if looking up 
>TXT/<http://x.example.com>x.example.com counts as one lookup or 
>three. I think it is reasonably clear that this is one but could not 
>find an explicit statement to that effect.
>
>On the security side, the document addresses all the mail issues 
>that I can remember at this point and rather more besides.
>
>I think we have reached the point of diminishing returns.
>
>The document provides a clear enough warning to people configuring 
>SPF records as to the consequences of getting it wrong which is the 
>main concern. The filtering services will know their business well 
>enough to minimize false positives.
>
>Hopefully the email infrastructure will evolve over time towards 
>concentrating on the more policy friendly approaches and it will be 
>possible to simplify the mechanism at a future date.

Thanks for the review.  I'll wait for the WGLC comments to be 
addressed before getting back to you about the quibble mentioned above.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy (as document shepherd)