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[spf-discuss] Re: Question...

2006-09-22 10:05:03
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Rainer Noa wrote:
Hello, can You please tell me, when SPF is leaving the state of
experimental?

"Experimental" is only a tag that the IETF chose to attach to SPF.  From 
the perspective of the SPF community and many SPF users, SPF has been 
stable for at least two years and rock-solid since the SPFv1 RFC (4408) 
was published in April 2006.

However, SPF certainly has its little problems (some might say, big 
problems, although most of them just don't like the concept of SPF), and 
they cannot be removed without breaking compatibility with existing
"v=spf1" records -- something that we have always been trying very hard to 
avoid.

I think it can be safely said that we now understand SPF, and the effects 
it has on the e-mail system, very well and are now aware of most of its 
problems.  We are currently debating the possibilities of creating another 
version of SPF (v1.1 and/or v3) that resolves most of the problems and 
perhaps adds a few important features.  If we decide to take this route, 
it will certainly take at least another year before a new specification 
can be released.

I suggest you subscribe to the SPF project's announcement list[1] where we 
send important news roughly twice or so a year.  That will keep you up to 
date.

Julian.

References:
 1. http://new.openspf.org/Forums

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