On Sunday, July 29, 2012 11:55:30 PM John Levine wrote:
> >I imagine this is worth noting in a Privacy Considerations or Security
> >Considerations paragraph or two, but not something that needs to be
> >repaired in the protocol somehow.
> 
> It's purely a documentation issue.  If R sends reports to S, it's
> going to reveal something about how third parties relayed mail from S
> to R.  That will reveal something about who those third parties are,
> and in some cases may allow report recipients to deduce information
> about some of of R's users.
> 
> Any plausible fix would be incredibly cumbersome, along the lines of
> requiring the third party domains that show up in bounce addresses and
> signatures to publish policy records saying it's OK to include them in
> reports.  It'd be totally impossible to audit, since those third
> parties have no way to see what's being reported about them.

I agree.  I wasn't trying to suggest a protocol change, just suggesting it 
should be documented.

Scott K
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