On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 03:18:59PM +0000, Julian Mehnle wrote:
The words "SPF record" can be confusing.
so far, most seem to agree on this part.
I usually use the following terminology:
* "SPF (sender) policy"
An abstract list of a domain's sender policy declaration atoms
according to the SPF standard.
Indeed, this sounds better than what I suggested.
SPF policy <- the content of a resource record, starting with
(current version) "v=spf1".
* "SPF record"
A DNS record of RR type 'SPF' or 'TXT' carrying an "SPF policy".
* "SPF-type RR" or "SPF-type DNS record"
A DNS record of RR type 'SPF' (not 'TXT'!) carrying an "SPF policy".
This I don't like. I say TXT record, A record, PTR record, and so on.
Analogously to this, I would like to say SPF record and have made it
clear that I mean the SPF resource record (type 99).
Eventually the "'TXT' type" meaning of "SPF record" will go away if/when
another revision of SPF that uses only SPF-type RRs will have become
dominant over SPFv1.
Should we wait for this to use correct terminology? I'm afraid that
the longer we wait, the harder it will be to stop the confusion.
regards
Alex
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