Re: The state of DNS support, was Deprecating SPF
"John Levine" <[email protected]>
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>The point here is that protocols evolve all the time as we learn what's a good idea and what isn't. You (and others) appear to be >arguing that protocols that get deployed and gain some level of acceptance, even as "Experimental", are cast in stone and that the >IETF must be forbidden from modifying them unless there is explicit evidence that markets will _immediately_ seize upon those >modifications. I think that view is broken. No, it's the converse. When protocols are deployed and widely accepted, if someone wants to make changes that have NO OPERATIONAL ADVANTAGES WHATSOEVER, it's up to the proponents to explain why the world will adopt them. King Canute and all that. The practical operational advantages of http/1.0 and /1.1 over /0.9 were obvious. The advantages of SPF type 99 over type 16 were purely hypothetical in 2006 and equally hypothetical now. R's, John _______________________________________________ dnsext mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsext