On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 06:02:53AM -0500,
wayne <wayne(_at_)midwestcs(_dot_)com> wrote
a message of 29 lines which said:
I have read that paper, and I did reply to the points raised in it.
The issues with TXT records was discussed to death on the MARID list
and even DNS gurus don't seem to have a huge problem the way SPF is
using TXT records.
Discussed to death? Yes. Consensus that there is no problem? Not at
all, just mutual exhausting. The current I-D on MARID does not say
what you say:
However, because there is a large number of domains with these
records already deployed as TXT type records, and because there are a
number of DNS server and resolver implementations in common use that
cannot handle new RR types, the record type can be TXT.
So, it does not say there is no problem with TXT records (there are)
but quite the opposite: we should not use the TXT record but practical
concerns with broken <insert the name of a big software company> DNS
resolvers and provisioning issues with some Web interfaces for DNS
management force us to allow the use of TXT records.