Re: Re: Problems with spf testsuite and dns specification

Stefano Bagnara <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spf.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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