Re: [spfbis] Proposed spf TXT record change

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Wed, 10 February 2016 00:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [spfbis] Proposed spf TXT record change
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In message <56BA775B.9050109@ragged-software.com>, "Roy A. Gilmore" writes:
> I'm not sure how to go about this, but, I'll start here and maybe
> somebody could point me in the right direction. I think placing the spf
> information in a TXT record directly attached to the domain is a
> mistake. I think the spf information should be placed in a TXT record
> attached to a _spf selector (e.g. _spf.example.com). This behavior
> already has a history of being used by other services (i.e.
> _kerberos.example.com, _dmarc.example.com, etc.), and would make
> retrieving the spf information much easier and much more robust. This
> would also be a trivial change to implement. Any thoughts?

This group won't allow the double query and will introduce spurious
interoperablity arguments.  See the history of the SPF record type
which if the group hadn't abandoned would be well on the way to
being done by now as they abandoned the process just as the libraries
using the new code point were being deployed.

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