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Re: SPF v1 draft for review

2004-10-06 07:07:22
I think it is quite clear that this is a syntax error, which causes
PermError.

Maybe for the "redirect=" modifier. But I would not be so intolerant and
return "PermError" if there are more than one "exp=" modifiers. I would
ignore any error that may happen when processing the "exp=" modifier.

I tend to see this problem from the developer's viewpoint. I admit
that the last version of the SPF proposal I reviewed in depth was
draft-ietf-marid-protocol-00 which clearly specified "exp" as global
and singular with the sole purpose of providing human-readable
explanation for the upstream and that I why I thought that SPF
implementations must not accept multiple "exp" modifiers.

It still remains a question however what SPF implementations should do
with multiple "exp" modifiers - use the first one found left to right
or evaluate all and concatenate the results?

  Peter Karsai