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scope=mfrom is taboo (was: Identity codes, plus a new %{x} macro)

2005-05-27 13:59:05
wayne wrote:

I think explicitly say what scope is useful.

Then you'll please be so kind to reproduce a real mail header
where a scope= is used in an Received-SPF header field created
by an existing v=spf1 implementation.

Otherwise it's spf2.0 territory and off limits for v=spf1.  You
made clear statements what the v=spf1 spec. is supposed to be,
among others you discussed this with Ted.

I've informed another IESG member (Cc: Ted) about this plan.
William informed the IESG.  This is NOT the time to add MARID
terms like "scope" or "mfrom" to the v=spf1 spec. when nobody
has implemented this scope=mfrom parameter for Received-SPF.

"Scope" is the name of a modifier used in the SPF specs in
the fall of 2003.

It was not a part of the wannabe "frozen" spec.s  There was no
"rough consensus" to add it since I read this list.  There are
serious disagreements and multiple competing ideas how to add
something like scopes to a hypothetical spf3.

It was resurected for MARID in a slightly different form.

You told the IESG that v=spf1 does NOT belong to MARID.  The
SPF Council decided unanimously to go for a proposed standard
of its own.  Ths s/experimental/standard/ in the 3864 Status:
was no "accident", whatever Bruce or Ted might think about it.

I bet there are still some "v=spf1" records out there that
have scope= and default= modifiers in them.

Maybe also include_subdomains=yes.  Nevertheless the "zone cut"
was killed for a reason.
                        Bye, Frank