Re: Re: More about the SPF RRTYPE

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Julian Mehnle wrote:

>> I think a lot of people would be happy if SPFbis said to use an "_spf"
>> TXT record, and the various open source and commercial implementations
>> evolved to comply.  People could leave SPF TXT records in the current
>> location for transition purposes as long as they like, but we should
>> explicitly deprecate that practice and encourage the new one.
>
> This would abandon the entire deployed base and would also cause
> implementations to do *yet another* lookup for policy discovery (in
> addition to domain./TXT and possibly domain./SPF).  I don't think there's
> any point in doing that for v=spf1.

+1

No point to yet another lookup for v=spf1.  Save the type99 vs _spf debate
for v=spf3.

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