Re: The state of DNS support, was Deprecating SPF

Jay Daley <[email protected]>
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On 25/08/2013, at 11:43 AM, John R Levine <[email protected]> wrote:

>> It also tells us if we were to say MUST lookup up SPF then they would add
>> support.
> 
> I salute your wry sense of humor.

Sorry John I think Mark is quite right.  The position of "we're waiting for the IETF" can only be interpreted one way - if the IETF mandates the SPF record lookup then those manufacturers will implement that.  As you and others have pointed out it is most likely a trivial code change given almost all of the logic is there.  They just need a reason to do it and an IETF mandate is as good a reason as there is.

To me this debacle is a failure of will.  The will to define and stick to an architecture.  A dose of MUST every now and then in cases like this would strengthen the IETF not weaken it.

Jay


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