Friends -
Thanks so much for all the feedback, review, comments, suggestions,
corrections, and encouragement on the draft for SPF v1. I have read
and sifted all the input and made numerous changes, mostly very small,
to produce this latest version:
http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/spf/draft-lentczner-spf-00pre2.html
http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/spf/draft-lentczner-spf-00pre2.txt
Unless I hear gnashing of teeth, I will prepare it for submission to
the IETF as an internet-draft on Wednesday, and then begin the process
of moving it to experimental RFC status.
Some of the feedback required some decisions on my part:
1) "v=spf1" is case-*in*sensitive, as are all the quoted literal
strings in the grammar
2) Modifiers are all global and singular. New versions of SPF can do
what they like. Since SPF v1 only has two modifiers, and they are both
global and singular, there is no reason to complicate things.
3) Kept the new RR type text, far from slowing down the experimental
RFC process, it will probably speed it up as the DNS-EXT folks will
almost certainly want it added back if it is missing.
4) Kept the "Domains SHOULD publish ... -all" language. Whether or not
this is where SPF can or should go, it seems clear that this was the
original intent of SPF v1.
- Mark
Mark Lentczner
http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/
markl(_at_)glyphic(_dot_)com