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Re: Towards resolution on Wildcards

2004-06-10 14:14:43

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 "william(at)elan.net" <william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net> writes:

if we go with TXT record, its better to have these in dns prefix so as to 
avoid collisions with other uses of TXT record. At the same time if we go
with prefix,

For what it is worth, the majority of TXT records at the
_ep.domain.tld level are not MS Caller-ID records, but SPF records.
There were other things too. I presume this is due to people
wildcarding SPF records.

On that note, as one of dozens of problems that I notice that the
marid-core document has removed the xmlns=<namespace> tag from the XML
records, thus removing a "magic number" needed to unambiguously
identify the TXT record as a MARID XML record.   (I'm waiting for Meng
to get a chance to update the doc before I start listing all the
problems.  Most are pretty obvious to anyone who knows SPF.)


-wayne