Re: [spf-discuss] Feature list for SPFv3

Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> 1. The most important, and most boring, is to shepherd SPF1 to a 
> non-experimental RFC.  This involves editing to incorporate errata, and 
> clarifying things like "please remember to whitelist your forwarders, or at 
> least your own secondary MXes, when checking SPF, or at least don't reject if 
> your don't", but otherwise making no changes. 
I wish to thankk Scott for the link to the source. Does the "/svn/" in 
the url imply an active repository? If a subversion server is 
available it would ease that work.
> (Of course, the RFC shouldn't 
> dictate receiver policy, and the wording should be more like "if the email is 
> relayed by an MTA not controlled by the sender, e.g. forwarders and MXes, the 
> SPF result will not reflect the senders intention".)
That is a general rule for RFCs. However, some roles around questions 
of who authorizes who, and authentication vs. accountability, may be 
clarified slightly.
> 2. The second task, which is more fun, but not needed for some time is to 
> draw up the successor (v3).  Of course, the successor will be tagged. 
> One tricky issue for the v3 RFC to specify is what to do when v1 and v3 
> are both specified and give different results.  (I would say that v3 
> should always override v1 when present.)  When a somewhat stable v3 takes 
> shape, it can be deployed by enthusiasts without an RFC (but with a draft rfc 
> on openspf.org). After it is really stable (years), a new RFC can be 
> submitted.
Do we really want to alter the specs to the point that v1 and v3 yield 
different results? I hope we don't. SPF is quite stable and functional 
_now_. I'd expect the time required for stability to be proportional 
to the number and depth of changes. Hence, in general, the fewer 
changes the better.

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