James Cloos <[email protected]> wrote:

> Some comments:

Thanks!

> ,----
> | o  If there is no TLSA record or its DNSSEC validation state is
> |    insecure or indeterminate, this protocol has not been fully
> |    deployed.  The client SHOULD deliver to this server insecurely
> |    (which might be over unauthenticated TLS).
> `----
>
> In that case the target mta might offer a cert which the client mta can
> authenticate by some means other than dane (eg a pool in CApath or the
> like).  So 'insecurely' is not the right adverb.

The reason it says "insecurely" here is explained in the first couple of
paragraphs in the introduction. Perhaps I should add a back-reference.

> ,----
> | A <Transmitted-line> SHALL include:
> |
> | o  A <To-domain> clause describing the SMTP server.  The <Domain>
> |    part of a <To-domain> SHALL be the same as the SMTP server host
> |    name.
> `----
>
> When would/could/should the To-domain not in its entirety match the string
> used for the A/AAAA and TLSA lookups?

They always match - that is what the text you quoted is supposed to mean.

> ,----
> | 6.1.  "with" protocol types
> `----
>
> It seems odd that with is used for some auth but not all.  Perhaps there
> should be a with keyword for tlsa, too?

Isn't that covered by RFC 3848? ESMTPSA and so forth.

Tony.
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