George Mitchell wrote:
Before we waste any more time on XML, could we take a quick poll on
whether we want to use it at all? I request all of the members of
this
list respond (once) to the list in this thread, stating simply whether
you believe the SPF specification should include the use of XML. I'll
start off:
I am opposed to the use of XML in conjunction with SPF.
XML has no place in DNS. Yet this does not necessarily make me opposed. MS
has compromized, big time. They pretty much caved in on all fronts; they
declared, before Meng, their willingness to cooperate with integrating SPF;
and the sendmail people nodded, saying: "Everything people like MS will do,
we will support as well;" or words to that effect.
We are at a milestone junction in time, really. MS, and other big ones, have
extended their hand. They ask only one small favor in return: that SPF
records be written in XML. I think we should seize the moment, and get SPF
adopted across the globe, on a scale heretofore unseen. That has been our
goal all along. We are now closer than ever before. Take the moment, is my
advice; for it may not come again.
Pick up the glove now, and SPF will become the major standard for years to
come; remain obstinent, unwilling to yield even to the smallest concession,
and MS will pursue other avenues: meaning, SPF will become marginalized, in
favor of other standards, with other people. However strong your hand is,
always be sure not to deal yourself out of the game.
In short: I am pro introducing XML.
- Mark
System Administrator Asarian-host.org
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