Re: Problems with spf testsuite and dns specification

Julian Mehnle <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spf.devel
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Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Saturday 16 June 2007 17:23, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> > The point is, a live resolver *just might* return multiple identical
> > records.  In that case (as unlikely as it may be in practice), rfc4408
> > says the result is PermError.  So this is a legitimate thing to test
> > for.  The more unlikely, the more important to test for it.
>
> I think this is being pedantic beyond all logic.  If someone want to do
> an errata to say multiple <b> non-identical </b> records, I'm all for
> it.  There can be no harm in multiple records that are identical, it
> generates no ambiguity.

This _might_ have been the best resolution 2-3 years ago.  However, now we 
cannot do that anymore, as it would require implementations to check for 
whether multiple records are identical or not.  And grafting this onto RFC 
4408 with a "SHOULD" (i.e. not strictly requiring the new behavior) 
wouldn't solve the problem at hand.

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