On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:44 PM, John Coutts <[email protected]> wrote:

> A review of our DNS logs yesterday revealed a number of requests for DMARC 
> records, followed by a great many requests for type 99 records which our DNS 
> server does not support. RFC 4408 dated September 2013 clearly states:
> 
>   Studies have shown that RRTYPE 99 has not seen any substantial use,
>   and in fact its existence and mechanism defined in [RFC4408] has led
>   to some interoperability issues.  Accordingly, its use is now
>   obsolete, and new implementations are not to use it.
> 
> Do the DMARC specs reflect this information?
> 
DMARC relies on the result of the SPF layer. It is not for DMARC to specify how 
SPF should work.

http://trac.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis-21 is not yet an 
approved document, expect a year or two after approval for SPF libraries to be 
updated.

I find it concerning your DNS server does not support RRTYPE99 as many new 
types have been introduced since, like DNSSEC type of records...

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