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Re: SPF design refrozen

2004-01-24 10:06:21
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 07:57:44AM -0500, Mark Shewmaker wrote:

| 2.  (Ducking) The spf1 standard could state that mechanisms beginning
|     with "ignore_me_" are to be ignored, and not cause spf processing to
|     abort.
| 
|     That would mean that I could publish a record with
|     "ignore_me_coolfeature:yes ignore_me_somethingelse=1234" in an spf1
|     record, not break compatibility with spec'd clients, and folks who
|     were interested in one or the other or both could set their test
|     clients to enable the functionality of one or the other or both.
| 
|     (You'd probably want something shorter than "ignore_me".  Maybe
|     "local_", but I'd be afraid of potential spec fragmentation with
|     vendors all adding in additional "local" functionality.)

How about "v=spf1+" meaning "experimental additions" to version 1, and
that such a record can co-exist with "v=spf1" so you can publish a normal
specification at the same time?

@ IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:10.0.0.0/8 -all"
@ IN TXT "v=spf1+ foo:bar ip4:10.0.0.0/8 ?all"

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