This battle seems to be taking more and more casualties from both
sides.
People who were working closely together are now on opposite sides of
the fence.
I am reading as much as I can and with either scheme I can't see where
this would not, at minimum, double the load on the DNS system.
So if we are going to go down that path, I would like to submit a "What
if" that could work for both proposals.
It will require a change in code, but hopefully not a huge one.
Could the record first have a pointer in DNS that would tell it where
to look and how many bytes the record is?
MAIL FROM: Joe(_at_)joejobs(_dot_)com
DNS lookup joejobs.com returns _MARID.joejobs.com/SPF/512
This tells the mail system that the record for joejobs.com is at
_MARID.joejobs.com, the record is an SPF record and expect the record to
be 512bytes long.
It will require a second DNS lookup to the MARID record, but it will
allow a choice of schema and help resolve the issue of buffer-overflows.
I have not thought this through this at all. Just came to me.
Regards,
Damon Sauer
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