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Re: [spfbis] WGLC: draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis-14 - Fully parse record *first*

Stuart Gathman <stuart@gathman.org> Wed, 24 April 2013 16:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [spfbis] WGLC: draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis-14 - Fully parse record *first*
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Long ago, Nostradamus foresaw that on 04/22/2013 10:54 AM, John Levine
would write:
> In article <CABuGu1pebsfi+1JHRYoOmm1Q3xft2paOGi3zwXbxHjbR3tmnKw@mail.gmail.com> you write:
>> -=-=-=-=-=-
>> -=-=-=-=-=-
>>
>> That leaves the ambiguity of handling -all in embedded (include:) records.
>> What should be done if the sample foobar mechanism is being referenced in
>> an included record?
> At this point, I think we have to say that stuff like that is
> undefined, since in reality it does whatever the code does, and it
> happens so rarely that nobody cares.
>
> Remember that a standard needs to tell people what to do to interoperate, but
> it doesn't have to tell you want to do if someone else screws up.
>
It wasn't undefined for rfc4408, and is in the test suite.  It isn't
undefined for rfc4408bis either - I'm just trying to prevent a few
boneheaded implementations.

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