Subject: Re: [spfbis] #19: RFC 4408: Section 7 Received-SPF examples use incorrect syntax

From: S Moonesamy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:38:49 -0800

At 07:12 21-02-2012, spfbis issue tracker wrote:
>#19: RFC 4408: Section 7 Received-SPF examples use incorrect syntax
>
>  Received-SPF examples use incorrect syntax
>
>  Suggested wording:
>
>  The examples in section 7 are incorrectly quoted, and should look like
>  this:
>
>        Received-SPF: Pass (mybox.example.org: domain of
>         [email-masked] designates 192.0.2.1 as permitted sender)
>            receiver=mybox.example.org; client-ip=192.0.2.1;
>            envelope-from="[email-masked]"; helo=foo.example.com;
>
>        Received-SPF: Fail (mybox.example.org: domain of
>                          [email-masked] does not designate
>                          192.0.2.1 as permitted sender)
>                          identity=mailfrom; client-ip=192.0.2.1;
>                          envelope-from="[email-masked]";
>
>  Rationale:
>
>  In RFC4408, key-value-pair is defined as:
>
>        key-value-pair   = key [CFWS] "=" ( dot-atom / quoted-string )
>
>  However, the examples look like this:
>
>        Received-SPF: Pass (mybox.example.org: domain of
>         [email-masked] designates 192.0.2.1 as permitted sender)
>            receiver=mybox.example.org; client-ip=192.0.2.1;
>            envelope-from=<[email-masked]>; helo=foo.example.com;
>
>  Notice that envelope-from in both cases is NOT a dot-atom or quoted-
>  string.
>
>  None of '<','>','@' are legal chars for dot-atom.
>
>  http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/spfbis/current/msg00476.html

[snip]

>Ticket URL: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/spfbis/trac/ticket/19>

I am going to classify Issue #19 as "Hold for document update".  If 
there are any objections, please post them to this mailing 
list.  BTW, the issue may be opened for discussion if an open issue 
is related to this issue.  Please let me know if it occurs.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy
SPFBIS WG co-chair