Re: [spfbis] #24: RFC 4408: Reasonable DNS error limits

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> Wed, 22 August 2012 22:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [spfbis] #24: RFC 4408: Reasonable DNS error limits
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Hello,

I am addressing this message to the persons who did the surveys for RFC 6686.

At 15:45 22-08-2012, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>In general, I think that the current processing limits are 
>reasonable and well
>documented and the text in the security considerations is appropriate.  It
>might be prudent to provide some additional constraint, provided we can do it
>in a backward compatible way.  This is discussed in:
>
>http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/spfbis/current/msg00850.html
>
>It would be good to know if the information that's needed to assess 
>the impact
>of such a void lookup limit can be garnered from the existing surveys and if
>the authors of one or more of the surveys would be up for gathering the data
>for us?

Could you please help with the above?

SPFBIS WG participants are also welcome to comment on this issue.

Regards.
S. Moonesamy
SPFBIS WG co-chair