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[spf-discuss] Last changes to draft-schlitt-spf-classic

2006-01-11 16:11:52
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Frank Ellermann wrote:
Wayne Schlitt wrote:
It is quite possible that we could have had an RFC by now.

[...]
You also planned several ABNF updates confirmed by the Community.  Last
state I know was "not yet ready", that was some months ago.

...and I think these last changes /must/ go in, if at all possible.

Also, the council website URL in section 12.2, "The Received-SPF mail 
header", needs to be changed from "http://spf.mehnle.net/"; to "http://www. 
openspf.org/Council" (with a capital "C").  (See the attached patch.)

I also wonder if the following change, which I hadn't proposed[1] in time 
for draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02, could make it into the last edition?  
(Patch attached, too.)

- --- draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02.xml
+++ draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02+ipv6-handling.xml
@@ -997,9 +997,13 @@
         When any mechanism fetches host addresses to compare with
         <ip>, when <ip> is an IPv4 address, A records are
         fetched, when <ip> is an IPv6 address, AAAA records are
- -        fetched.  Even if the SMTP connection is via IPv6, an
- -        IPv4-mapped IPv6 IP address (see <xref target="RFC3513"/>
- -        section 2.5.5) MUST still be considered an IPv4 address.
+        fetched.  For SPF clients supporting IPv6, it is recommended that
+        it internally operates on IPv6 addresses only, and that it
+        converts any IPv4 addresses to IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses
+        (::ffff:n.n.n.n, see <xref target="RFC3513"/> section 2.5.5)
+        internally. However, the client MUST still match any such
+        ::ffff:n.n.n.n addresses against n.n.n.n addresses in SPF records
+        and format them as n.n.n.n addresses when generating output text.
       </t>
       <t>
         Several mechanisms rely on information fetched from DNS.  For

References:
 1. 
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200506/0759.html
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