Re: Re: domain literals

On Saturday 17 March 2007 12:09, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Frank Ellermann wrote:
> > Please add also the a:%{h} cases after "HELO museum" or
> > "HELO museum." (of course s/museum/test/ or similar, for
> > a match of its IP), it's not the same as "oemcomputer".
>
> The correct result is not at all clear in this case.
> 4.8/1 says the result of macro expansion for a domain-spec
> is a FQDN.  It does not specify what to do when the
> expansion is, in fact, *not* a FQDN.
>
> Choices offered so far:
>
> a) treat as a TLD  (Frank Ellerman)
> b) don't match
> c) permerror       (rejected after discussion)
>
> The test suite does not currently distinguish between a and b, but it
> does check to make sure it does not permerror.

Given that at the beginning of the process (in the paragraph I cited a few 
messages back) the SPF result for a non-FQDN is None, I think that don't 
match is the only result that's consistent with that.

Scott K

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