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RFC 4408 test-suite 2008.08 released
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A new release, 2008.08, of the RFC 4408 test-suite has been finalized:

http://www.openspf.org/Test_Suite

It is recommended that you verify that your implementations still conform
to the updated test-suite, and update them if necessary.

A quote from the changelog (changes since the 2007.05 release):

# Legend:
# --- = A new release
# ! = Added a test case or otherwise tightened a requirement, possibly
# causing implementations to become incompliant with the current
# test-suite release
# - = Removed a test case or otherwise relaxed a requirement
# * = Fixed a bug, or made a minor improvement

- --- 2008.08 (2008-08-17 16:00)

! "invalid-domain-empty-label", "invalid-domain-long",
"invalid-domain-long-via-macro" test cases:
A <target-name> that is a valid domain-spec per RFC 4408 but an invalid
domain name per RFC 1035 (two successive dots or labels longer than 63
characters) must be treated either as a "PermError" or as non-existent and
thus a no-match. (In particular, those cases can never cause a TempError
because the error is guaranteed to reoccur given the same input data.
This applies likewise to RFC-1035-invalid <target-name>s that are the
result of macro expansion.) Refined descriptions and comments to that
end.
The no-match behavior can be inferred by analogy from 4.3/1 and 5/10/3.
The spec reference to 8.1/2 is bogus because the formal grammar does not
preclude such invalid domain names.
! The "exp= without domain-spec" controversy has been resolved; it must be a
syntax error. Tightened "exp-empty-domain" test case accordingly.
! Added test cases:
! "a-dash-in-toplabel":
<toplabel> may contain dashes. Implementations matching <toplabel>
non-greedily may get that wrong.
! "a-only-toplabel", "a-only-toplabel-trailing-dot":
Both "a:museum" and "a:museum." are invalid syntax. A bare top-label is
insufficient, with or without a trailing dot.
! "exp-no-txt", "exp-dns-error":
Clearly, "exp=" referring to a non-existent TXT RR, or the look-up
resulting in a DNS error, must cause the "exp=" modifier to be ignored per
6.2/4.
! "macro-mania-in-domain":
Test macro-encoded percents (%%), spaces (%_), and URL-percent-encoded
spaces (%20) in <domain-spec>.
! "macro-reverse-split-on-dash":
Test transformation of macro expansion results: splitting on non-dot
separator characters, reversal, number of right-hand parts to use.
- Removed "a-valid-syntax-but-unqueryable" test case. It is redundant to
the "invalid-domain-empty-label" test case.
- Relaxed "multispf1" test case:
If performed via live DNS (yes, some people do that!), this test may be
ineffective as DNS resolvers may combine multiple identical RRs. Thus,
tolerate the test failing in this manner.
* Adjusted "multispf2" test case:
Avoid combination of multiple identical RRs by using different
capitalization in intentionally duplicate RRs.
* Renamed test cases:
a-numeric-top-label -> a-numeric-toplabel
a-bad-toplab -> a-bad-toplabel

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Re: RFC 4408 test-suite 2008.08 released -- Statistics and thanks! [ In reply to ]
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Julian Mehnle wrote:
> A new release, 2008.08, of the RFC 4408 test-suite has been finalized:

Here are some statistics on the test suite:

S# Scenario Tests RRs Spec References
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1 Initial processing 7 4 4.3
2 Record lookup 7 7 4.4
3 Selecting records 10 19 4.5
4 Record evaluation 12 13 4.3, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.3, 4.7, 5, 8.1
5 ALL mechanism syntax 5 6 5.1
6 PTR mechanism syntax 6 12 5.5
7 A mechanism syntax 23 27 5.3, 8.1
8 Include mechanism semantics and syntax 9 14 5.2
9 MX mechanism syntax 21 32 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 8.1
10 EXISTS mechanism syntax 3 4 5.7
11 IP4 mechanism syntax 9 10 5, 5.6
12 IP6 mechanism syntax 9 7 5, 5.6
13 Semantics of exp and other modifiers 20 30 6, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, A
14 Macro expansion rules 21 42 8.1
15 Processing limits 9 48 10.1
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Total: 171 275

I think the test suite has been a great success story! Various people
have contributed to what has helped a number of implementations in
becoming next to 100% compliant with quite sophisticated a specification.

Thanks to everyone involved!

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