--"Eric A. Hall" <ehall(_at_)ehsco(_dot_)com> wrote:
Look, I'm not advocating anything other than compact data. I'm perfectly
happy with pre-XML SPF (I've been using it for a while), or RMX, or any of
the other similar proposals as long as they commit to a compact encoding.
I like DomainKeys too, but they'd have to store the certs somewhere other
than DNS before I'd back it. Really, this is all I care about.
OK, I can totally agree with this. I am a strong supporter of SPF for the
same reason (among a few others).
The "merged" approach allows for both SPF and XML syntax to exist in
parallel for quite some time. This will be a pain in the ass for
implementers, but I think it will be worth it in order to get existing SPF
supporters on board.
The prevailing opinion among those I talked to at the interim meeting is
that XML will be the future direction, but I think it might be possible to
wake up in 5 years and still find that 90% of participating domains have
expressed SPF-style syntax. If that happens we might reconsider the
direction :) So if XML doesn't take off, we still have options ;)
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Greg Connor <gconnor(_at_)nekodojo(_dot_)org>