Re: [spfbis] #7: RFC 4408 Downcase result names in spec text and ABNF

[Scott Kitterman <[e-mail]>]

On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:38:32 AM S Moonesamy wrote:
> At 22:29 17-02-2012, spfbis issue tracker wrote:
> >#7: RFC 4408 Downcase result names in spec text and ABNF
> >
> >Comment (by sm+ietf@…):
> >  Comment from MARF WG Chairs:
> >  
> >  If SPFbis decides to change all the SPF result codes to all-lowercase
> >  rather than the current camel case, then SPFbis will want to announce
> >  that
> >  it updates draft-ietf-marf-spf-reporting
> 
> This issue is related to the comment from Scott
> Kitterman about RFC 6652 (
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/spfbis/current/msg01630.html ).

I don't get this issue.  The result names are, and have always been, case 
insensitive, so I think the downcasing is purely stylistic.  Why does 4408bis 
need to update 6652 for this?

I do wonder if it makes sense to replicate the IANA registry information in 
6652 into 4408bis and then have 4408bis update 6652, but that's (AFAICT) 
unrelated to the downcasing question.

Scott K