Re: Problems with spf testsuite and dns specification

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Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Monday 18 June 2007 04:57, Julian Mehnle wrote:
> > Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > How about MUST Permerror on multiple SPF records, except
> > > implementations MAY treat multiple identical records as a single 
> > > record?
> >
> > I think we could do that.
> >
> > But this would still just make the inconclusive interpretation of the
> > spec explicit, and leave the problem to be fixed in the test suite.
>
> Yes, but if we have an errata to allow this behavior then there's
> nothing to argue about the test suite, it just needs to be updated.  It
> is an inconsistency, but given that DNS may compact the duplicate
> records to a single record, the inconsistency already exists.  This just
> makes it more obvious.

True, true.  But I don't think we need to make an erratum for every 
fuzziness of the spec.  We have "clarified" fuzziness in the RFC via the 
test suite before, without creating errata.

However, I still prefer to simply _sidestep_ the issue by applying the 
proposed patch to the test suite instead of testing for RFC 2181 5/1 and 
allowing for ambiguous results.

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