Ryan Malayter wrote:
All of these "layers" can then evolve and exist somewhat on their
own,
and yet still be part of the branded "SPF family" that is designed to
provide varying degrees of authentication to email. Reputation
systems
will evolve for each layer. The marketplace can decide which layers
succeed and which ones fail.
Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
Amen. I really like the idea of independent authentication "layers".
This is exactly why I supported the following suggestion that Tim made
some time ago:
Tim Meadowcroft wrote:
v=spf2 xml=http://www.schmerg.com/spf.xml mx -all
This way you get the best of both worlds - let the 'market(s)'
decide how much they want XML...
Your implementation can choose to ignore the xml string, the only extra
code required in the parser would be to understand that it's there and
jump to the old-style syntax.
Michel.