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

Scott Kitterman <spf2@kitterman.com> Wed, 24 April 2013 04:33 UTC

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On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 09:10:15 PM Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:26 PM, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> > >I imagine you're going to say that 10 is the limit imposed by most
> > >implementations, but shouldn't we say that there should be a finite,
> > >perhaps configurable limit, and operational experience has shown that 10
> > 
> > is
> > 
> > >a reasonable default?
> > 
> > If everyone doesn't have the same limit, an SPF check might fail at a
> > site with a lower limit and the identical check would succeed at one
> > with a higher limit.  The limit has been 10 for a long time and I
> > don't see any reason to change it now.
> 
> I'd rather we say something like this.  Otherwise some neophyte will read
> this and think "What's so special about 10?"

OK.  Would you please propose text?

Scott K