Re: Re: Problems with spf testsuite and dns specification

On Monday 18 June 2007 08:31, Julian Mehnle wrote:
> 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.

I'm good with that too.  IMO the only reason to go to the trouble of an 
erratum would be to justify the test suite change if required.  Personally, I 
don't think it's required.

Scott K

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