Re: [spfbis] Proposed spf TXT record change

Dotzero <dotzero@gmail.com> Thu, 11 February 2016 14:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [spfbis] Proposed spf TXT record change
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
>
>> The evidence actually showed the transition was on track.
>
>
> After six years, it didn't appear to the working group that a transition
> of any kind was actually happening.
>

To reinforce Murray's comment, there was quite a bit of discussion in the
working group before the consensus to drop support for type 99. And there
was incredibly little implementation in the wild after ~6 years.

>
>
>> Nameservers support SPF were deployed.
>
>
> I thought it was pretty clear that this wasn't the problem.  The major
> obstacles were poor provisioning systems and faulty firewalls (as you
> pointed out, and as the experiments we did suggested).  The problem is that
> they are widespread, and that's unlikely to change.
>
> Libraries supporting SPF as well as TXT were being deployed.
>
>
> We specifically looked for this (especially the "being deployed" part)
> when preparing RFC6686, and found no evidence of it.  Exactly one source of
> type 99 queries was identified.  So, although there existed software
> support, nobody was using it.  We asked around, and nobody was planning to
> use it, either; many operators didn't even know what we were talking about.
>
>
>> None of this is captured in RFC6686.
>
>
> Because it wasn't supported by evidence.  If we had seen data to the
> contrary, we'd have written a different report.
>

It was captured in the working group discussions and the data that was
brought back to the working group clearly showed non significant
implementation in the wild.

Mike