On December 25, 2014 8:43:29 PM CST, "Murray S. Kucherawy" 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>> I don't think it does.  What I was trying to say is that if you
>already
>> got an
>> aligned pass from one method, you're done.  It doesn't matter if they
>other
>> one gets a DNS error, you already have a definitive result.  I don't
>think
>> your
>> text says that, but I may be wrong.
>>
>
>I think it's close.  I see the distinction you're making, and I've
>adjusted.  Have a look at the diff now:
>http://www.blackops.org/~msk/dmarc/diff.html

I believe that covers it.

>Also, I don't like the change from MUST NOT to cannot.  Receivers can
>do
>> whatever they want, so cannot isn't correct.  This bit is meant to
>say that
>> receivers aren't free to use DMARC as an excuse to throw away
>messages
>> every
>> time there's a DNS hiccup.  Applying policy in an inappropriate way
>does
>> have
>> an interoperability impact (messages quarantined/rejected that should
>not
>> be),
>> so I think the MUST NOT is appropriate.
>>
>
>I think "cannot" does do that, actually.  We're saying here that DMARC
>can't complete for the case you describe, namely where both SPF and
>DKIM
>suffered some kind of transient error.  In that case, if you're
>rejecting,
>you aren't legitimately doing it in the name of DMARC.
>
>I'm deliberately avoiding using new RFC2119 language here because it's
>way
>too late to be adding major normative goo.  These are supposed to be
>corrections to existing text, not addressing oversights in the protocol
>itself.  If we got this wrong in the base spec, then it's potential
>material for a standards track revision.  Otherwise, if we start down
>the
>path of fixing things, we're never going to be done with this version.
>
>(Pete and Barry would also point out here that it's possible for
>normative
>language to exist without using RFC2119's key words...)

OK. I think this solves the problem I was worried about. 

Thanks,

Scott K

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