On 08/26/2013 04:49 PM, John R Levine wrote:
Sorry if that last one came across as dismissive.
Until such time, I'd personally prefer to see some explicit notion that
the odd history of the SPF TXT record should not be seen as a precedent
and best practice, rather than hope that this is implicit.
I'd have thought that the debate here and elsewhere already documented
that. Since it's not specific to SPF, perhaps we could do a draft on
"overloaded TXT considered harmful" to get it into the RFC record.
It certainly documents there are some persistent people walking around
the dns world ;)
That draft may not be a bad idea.
Jelte