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Re: considering XML

2004-01-21 12:17:42
In <20040121185921(_dot_)GD6875(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com> Meng Weng 
Wong <mengwong(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:

In theory, extensibility will be built in [if we use XML].

I guess I disagree with this.  We *could* have allowed unrecognized
mechanisms to be ignored in SPF.  I think we made the right decision
to not silently ignore typos.

I do not understand XML that well, but I can't see how new mechanisms
can be created and understood by those systems that need to check SPF
records.

I can see how typos could be silently ignored (IMHO A Bad Thing).  I
can also see how you could download a description of the syntax and
not generate syntax errors, but I can't see any use to that if you
can't also download the semantics.



-wayne

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