At 5:09 PM -0700 8/23/04, Jim Lyon wrote:
I respectfully request that the above requirements be replaced with:
1.Pushblishers SHOULD publish using the new SPF2 record type,
if they are able to do so.
2. Regardless of whether they published using the SPF2 record
type, publishers MUST publish a TXT record.
I am concerned that MUST here means that we can never transition.
While I would agree with shifting SPF2 from MUST to SHOULD,
I believe, speaking personally, that strengthening MAY to MUST
goes to far. Both as SHOULDs makes some sense; at the moment
someone can deploy without SPF2 if they cannot publish
the new record, but in the future someone can deploy without
publishing a TXT record (which they may want to do in order to
use TXT for something else).
Again, speaking personally,
regards,
Ted Hardie