Re: [spfbis] Proposed spf TXT record change

"Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@gathman.org> Wed, 10 February 2016 19:32 UTC

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From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@gathman.org>
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Subject: Re: [spfbis] Proposed spf TXT record change
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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, Roy A. Gilmore wrote:

> Why should it matter if I'm a decade too late? If I'm right (and I'm not
> saying that I am), why shouldn't the behavior be changed. RFC's aren't
> set in stone, they are updated and/or obsoleted all the time. This
> proposed change is trivial to implement.

As a pyspf developer, the _spf idea is *not* trivial to implement. 
The SPF RR is trivial to implement.  The problem was braindead DNS
servers.

I still publish both SPF and TXT records (no SPF police are stopping
me).  I still have the type99 code in my SPF implementation.
Type99 is only deprecated.  If you can convince DNS server providers
to operate correctly for unknown RR types (or failing that, to
recognize SPF RR), and convince lots of people to publish both,
then a switch could be reconsidered.  Especially if there is a new
backward incompatible SPF version.