Re: Re: Problems with spf testsuite and dns specification
Stefano Bagnara <[email protected]>
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Scott Kitterman ha scritto: > 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 40 days after, I see the Errata page is unchanged and the test suite in SVN is unchanged: is there anything I can do for something to become real? I thought there was an agreement on patching the test suite by using multiple *different* records instead of multiple identical records. Stefano ------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=6959932&id_secret=26388500-351a3a Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com