Re: consensus call on pra/mailfrom deployment and versioning/scope

[Tony Finch <dot@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Andrew Newton wrote:
>
> It is the opinion of the co-chairs at this time (before the end of last call)
> that the MARID working group has no consensus regarding the deployment of
> Sender ID.  This lack of consensus centers around the IPR associated with the
> PRA algorithm.

Isn't there also IPR associated with the -core document?

> The ABNF in -protocol 3.4.1 is (mostly from a post by Wayne)
>
>    version     = "spf2." ver-minor "/" ver-scope *( "," ver-scope )
>    ver-minor   = 1*DIGIT
>    ver-scope   = "pra" / "mailfrom" / name
>    name        = alpha *( alpha / digit / "-" / "_" / "." )

Will there also be a helo scope?

We can't use either pra or mailfrom because they break forwarding.

Tony.
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