On 03/Mar/12 18:43, John Levine wrote:
Honestly, if new RR types were all text to be parsed by clients, a la
SPF and DKIM, that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
Well, since that's what is currently being done, it must obviously be
feasible. However, there is no reason to stick to it
Doubtful. If a record needs to have, say, a priority field, or a port number,
given the existence of MX, SRV, and various other RRs it's going to be very
difficult for the designers of said field to argue that that should be done
as
ASCII text that has to be parsed out to use.
Agree with
John Levine wrote:
Now mail clients parse
multiple SPF and DKIM records on every mail transaction and nobody
cares.
Well., its not like anyone really had a choice.
SPF is still maturing with its RR type, DKIM didn't bother, and now
also have VBR, ADSP and now ATPS and then DMARC (all
