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Re: IPv4/IPv6 address handling in the SPF specification

2005-06-27 18:33:24
wayne wrote:
 
Section 5 "Mechanism Definition" says, in part:

[...] Even if the SMTP connection is via IPv6, an IPv4-mapped
IPv6 IP address (see [RFC3513] section 2.5.5) MUST still be 
considered an IPv4 address.

Yes, Julian proposed to replace this MUST by (see his article).

In theory you'll have these "48 hours" where you could still
fix something, but in that case...

nice idea for implementors, and irrelevant for everyone else.

...better don't fix it, because it's not broken ;-)  Bye, Frank