Re: domain name definition in RFC2821

John C Klensin wrote:

 [the trailing dot TLD saga]
> If the dot is still there, it is a mistake.   I thought I
> had pulled it out.   Will fix in the working copy today.
Thanks...
 
> Apologies for the confusion.
...certainly not your fault, as far as SMTP and likely SPF
are concerned the TLDs will survive it if they're excluded.

The alternatives are unfortunately worse.  We (= SPF) only 
forgot to nail it for the corner case <target-name> in the
spec., elsewhere as in <domain-spec> it's already okay.

Frank