[83808] in North American Network Operators' Group
Maybe the IETF Won't Publish SPF and Sender-ID as Experimental RFCs Af
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Thu Aug 25 21:40:36 2005
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:38:25 GMT
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
John Levine writes over on CircleID:
[snip]
Yesterday, the IESG, the group that approves RFCs for publication received an appeal from Julian Mehnle to not to publish the Sender-ID spec as an experimental RFC due to technical defects. IESG members' responses were sympathetic to his concerns, so I'd say that a Sender-ID RFC has hit a roadblock.
The problem is simple: Although Sender-ID defines a new record type, called SPF 2.0, it also says that in the absence of a 2.0 record, it uses the older SPF1 record. Since SPF and Sender-ID can use the same records, if you publish an SPF record, you can't tell whether people are using it for SPF or Sender-ID.
[snip]
http://www.circleid.com/article/1178_0_1_0_C/
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