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TECH-ERROR: Duplication of version number as part of the name for SPF2 dns record (this is possibly TECH-OMISSION)

2004-08-26 18:46:31


In the draft-eitf-marid-protocol-02.txt in section 2.1 an example is given 
of SPF record as

example.com.  IN SPF2 "spf2.0/pra +mx +a:colo.examp.e.com/28 -all"

It is noteable that "spf2" part is repeated twice once as the name of the 
dns type and second time as a version of the record. I do not believe such 
duplication is appropriate because dns record type should be more general
then the version number of the spf record and should not incorporate spf 
record version as part of the type name.  

To fix it is recomended that all references to SPF dns record type and 
examples be changed from "SPF2" to just "SPF" with note in the text that 
such dns type records should confront to SPF2.0 or later records. So above
example would change to:

example.com.  IN  SPF "spf2.0/pra +mx +a:colo.examp.e.com/28 -all"

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net