Re: [spfbis] Proof of non-deployment [root@primary.se: Cron <root@primary> /usr/local/libexec/spf-txt.sh]

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Tue, 07 October 2014 16:15 UTC

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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>
wrote:

> It's always fun to be sarcastic, but you seem to be missing a point.
>
> The WG did not decide to deprecate the type for fun.  The problem was that
> there was a bug in the original RFC: the way the TXT and TYPE99 RRtype use
> was specified, it was possible for two implementations to be fully
> conforming without being able to interoperate. So we had to make an
> incompatible change of some kind, and given the empirical evidence we had
> the WG decided that picking only one was safest.  TXT remains the
> overwhelming leader, so it won.
>

Given the survey work recorded in RFC6686, I would be curious to hear
people's theories explaining the substantial uptick of TYPE99 queries in
the last two years while the industry has actually gone in the opposite
direction.  Of course, that presumes there's ample breadth and no bias in
the traffic seen by this one resolver.

-MSK