Re: [spfbis] Review of draft-ietf-spfbis-experiment-05

Scott Kitterman <spf2@kitterman.com> Sun, 22 April 2012 21:38 UTC

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On Sunday, April 22, 2012 09:27:59 PM Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: spfbis-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:spfbis-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
> > Of Scott Kitterman Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 2:13 PM
> > To: spfbis@ietf.org
> > Subject: Re: [spfbis] Review of draft-ietf-spfbis-experiment-05
> > 
> > The current text is correct.  The issue was Sender ID reusing SPF
> > policy statements (of which there were a large number published before
> > this change was introduced into Sender ID) not a generic "they both use
> > the same data".
> 
> Is it necessary to be that precise in this document's context?

It was an important enough issue at the time that IESG [1] and IAB [2] appeals 
on the practice were filed.  I think pretending that this was an even handed 
data reuse issue is flat out wrong.  In short, on this issue, yes.

Scott K

[1] http://www.ietf.org/iesg/appeal/mehnle-2005-08-25.txt
[2] http://www.iab.org/appeals/2006-2/appeal-against-iesg-decision-by-julian-
mehnle-8-february-2006/

P.S. This is unrelated to the question of hard feelings about MARID, which we 
are supposed to avoid.  This is related to post-MARID design decisions made by 
Microsoft.