Re: considering XML

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 10:43, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
> A significant stakeholder is in favour of using an XML encoding for SPF.
>
> How do you guys feel about that?
>
>   "v=spf1 a:192.0.2.0 mx -all"
>
> would be
>
>   <ep xmlns='http://spf.info/1'>
>     <out>
>       <m>
>         <a>192.0.2.0</a>
>       </m>
>       <m/>
>     </out>
>   </ep>
>
> In DNS, it would be
>
>   "<ep xmlns='http://spf.info/1'><out><m><a>192.0.2.0</a></m><m/></out></ep>"
Please Meng, not XML.  For the love of ANYTHING at all, not XML.  This
is the last place on earth that garbage belongs.  Just look at all that
unecessary garbage, we're already strapped for space as it is, trying to
keep people from using multiple dns records... 

James
-- 
James Couzens,
Programmer

obscurity.org
libspf.org

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