Language too strict in draft-ietf-marid-mailfrom-00 (Was: DEPLOY: Permitting '-all' to be used immediately represents a flag day.

Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.mxcomp
Organization NIC France
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 08:39:30PM +0200,
 Markus Stumpf <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 27 lines which said:

> Why all the hassle. Let the people/market decide.
> 
> - if someone publishes -all and gets important mail bounced s/he can
>   still decide to remove/change -all

I agree. This is a local policy issue. The second paragraph in the
section 2.2 of draft-ietf-marid-mailfrom-00.txt ("SHOULD publish SPF
records that end in "-all") should be deleted or moved to "Security
considerations" with a less demanding wording.
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