TXT vs SPF record for Google servers SPF record, either or both?

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Published on 2012-03-28T15:12:20Z Indexed on 2012/03/28 17:45 UTC
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According to Google’s documentation, https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178723

It clearly says Create a TXT record containing this text: v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all

Why is this not a SPF record?

RFC4408 defines SPF records, but it seems it’s not really used https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4408#section-3.1.1

Is that right? Should I create both TXT and SPF ?

Thanks

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