Re: [spfbis] Proposed spf TXT record change

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Thu, 11 February 2016 14:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [spfbis] Proposed spf TXT record change
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:

> The evidence actually showed the transition was on track.


After six years, it didn't appear to the working group that a transition of
any kind was actually happening.


> Nameservers support SPF were deployed.


I thought it was pretty clear that this wasn't the problem.  The major
obstacles were poor provisioning systems and faulty firewalls (as you
pointed out, and as the experiments we did suggested).  The problem is that
they are widespread, and that's unlikely to change.

Libraries supporting SPF as well as TXT were being deployed.


We specifically looked for this (especially the "being deployed" part) when
preparing RFC6686, and found no evidence of it.  Exactly one source of type
99 queries was identified.  So, although there existed software support,
nobody was using it.  We asked around, and nobody was planning to use it,
either; many operators didn't even know what we were talking about.


> None of this is captured in RFC6686.


Because it wasn't supported by evidence.  If we had seen data to the
contrary, we'd have written a different report.

-MSK