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[spf-discuss] Re: Test suite update

2007-03-19 17:44:49
Stuart D. Gathman wrote:

I am now even more commited to the interpretation that museum needs
a trailing dot to be a FQDN.

Won't fly, we get into the same trouble with a:%{l} for a local part
"museum" (without dot, but actually it doesn't matter).  There are
also SPF constructs to select a single label out of several labels,
and eventually you've to check if it (whatever it is) has an address.

The only place to fix this would be the definition of <target-name>,
we could demand that it must have a trailing dot if it has only one
label, independent of the used macro(s), %{h}, %{l}, or what else.

And by "demand" I mean a very shaky "erratum", RFC 4408 obviously
doesn't do what Scott and you propose.  At least "protecting the
DNS root servers" is a good excuse.  I hope.

Add it anyway to the test suite, and let implementations do what
they like for the moment until that's resolved.  One thing they
shouldn't do is crash.

Frank


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