On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Daniel Taylor wrote:
Since SPF has been issued an official RR the spec should reflect this
and give the official RR precedence. Interpretation of TXT spf records
should be explicitly left in for compatibility with DNS servers and spf
checkers that aren't in compliance with the latest spec. For this
reason, it may be desirable or even necessary for a domain owner to
publish a "bug compatible" TXT spf record while having a spec compliant
SPF record.
What a great idea! The SPF record could, for instance, have more PTR
mechs because the final spec doesn't count them. But then an implementation
would have to treat a TXT record slightly differently than a type99 SPF
record.
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