SM wrote on 2020-03-13 20:52:

who are you? "SM" is not personal enough for my tastes.

Hi Paul,
...

That matches https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00356  The RFC referenced in that article is RFC 4408 instead of RFC 7208.

the concatenation of <character-strings> on 255-octet boundaries has never been specified in a DNS RFC, and if the DKIM and SPF specifications require this, they are legislating from the bench.

RFC 1035        Domain Implementation and Specification    November 1987

<character-string> is expressed in one or two ways: as a contiguous set
of characters without interior spaces, or as a string beginning with a "
and ending with a ".  Inside a " delimited string any character can
occur, except for a " itself, which must be quoted using \ (back slash).

Because these files are text files several special encodings are
necessary to allow arbitrary data to be loaded.  In particular:
...
( )             Parentheses are used to group data that crosses a line
                boundary.  In effect, line terminations are not
                recognized within parentheses.
...
Mockapetris                                                    [Page 35]

i think this means i won't be using SPF or DKIM, nor exchanging e-mail with anyone who requires that i do so. piling kluge on kluge because the right person wasn't in the right room 15 years ago is no way to build a railroad i'm willing to ride on.

--
P Vixie

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