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On 2006-03-20 11:56, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:44:38AM -0800, Kurt Andersen wrote:
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After pondering the issue with the "domain-spec" of SPF not
matching RFC 1034's definition, I have found another, perhaps
more serious inconsistency. (See the earlier thread on
spf-discuss found at:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spf.discuss/20772 for
details.)
Section 6.l provides an example of redirect with an illegal
(according to the LDH rule) record. This is not just an academic
issue, as the current records for Microsoft and even POBox
themselves violate the LDH specification (by using underscores
'_'). I have not combed the spec for further examples, but I
suspect that they are there too.
I strongly urge the council and the authors to correct this
inconsistency by expanding the definition of "domain-spec" in the
SPF draft to match RFC 1034 before this problem becomes
formalized.
http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/apa/names.html
RFC 1034 Updated by 1101, 1183, 1348, 1876, 1982, 2065, 2181,
2308, 2535, 4033, 4034, 4035, 4343, 4035
None of which affect my claim of inconsistency between the DNS name
specifications and the SPF spec.
- --Kurt
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Kurt Andersen <kurta(_at_)agilent(_dot_)com>
Agilent Technologies Postmaster
Global Messaging Team, Agilent Technologies
+1 (509) 921-3792
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