On Saturday, March 01, 2014 3:04 AM [GMT+1=CET], J. Trent Adams wrote:

> We have chosen to submit the DMARC specification via the Independent
> Submission Editor (ISE). 
> (snip)
> To support this effort, we are asking the community for input as we
> prepare the current version for submission to the ISE. We are seeking
> concise statements that can be incorporated into the specification
> primarily with a focus toward clarity, readability, and utility.

About: 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kucherawy-dmarc-base/?include_text=1

I think that either section 5.2 is not clear enough, or the example given 
"mailto:[email protected]%2150m"; is wrong.

As I read it, section 5.2 is saying that a "DMARC URI" is a superset of [URI], 
and that while "commas or exclamation points are percent-encoded per [URI]" the 
definition of "DMARC URI" does not state that the superset it defines has also 
to be percent-encoded, and therefore the example given would be wrong.

As I read it, the email address [email protected] would translate to the 
canonical [URI] :

     mailto:my%[email protected]

which in turn would translate to this, for example 50MB-limited, "DMARC URI" :

     mailto:my%[email protected]!50m

I.e, section 5.2 says to percent-encode commas or exclamation points when they 
are inside [URI] (as per [URI]-itself definition), but not when they are inside 
the "DMARC URI" extension to [URI].

It perhaps may be argued both ways, but I think more clarity in this section 
the specification would be in order.

Regards, 

J.Gomez




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