Subject: [spfbis] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7208 (4751)

From: RFC Errata System <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:04:19 -0700 (PDT)

The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7208,
"Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in Email, Version 1".

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You may review the report below and at:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7208&eid=4751

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Ken Mortimer <[email-masked]>

Section: 5.5

Original Text
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This mechanism matches if

o  the <target-name> is a subdomain of a validated domain name, or

o  the <target-name> and a validated domain name are the same.

Corrected Text
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This mechanism matches if

o  a validated domain name is a subdomain of the <target-name>, or

o  the <target-name> and a validated domain name are the same.

Notes
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The first bullet point is in contradiction to the description of the ptr mechanism evaluation in the preceding paragraph:
"Check all validated domain names to see if they either match the <target-name> domain or are a subdomain of the <target-name> domain. If any do, this mechanism matches. If no validated domain name can be found, or if none of the validated domain names match or are a subdomain of the <target-name>, this mechanism fails to match."

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RFC7208 (draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis-21)
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Title               : Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in Email, Version 1
Publication Date    : April 2014
Author(s)           : S. Kitterman
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : SPF Update
Area                : Applications
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG