> On Feb 10, 2015, at 11:02 AM, Franck Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> From: "Murray S. Kucherawy" <[email protected]>
> To: "Franck Martin" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Tim Draegen" <[email protected]>, "dmarc" <[email protected]>, 
> [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 9:43:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] interoperability draft for review
> 
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Franck Martin <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > I don't believe the use of X-Original-From is described in any RFC 
> > currently.
> > If we're going to talk about it in section 4.3 we need to talk about how
> > it's actually used or refer to some place that does.
> 
> it is RFC5703
> 
> That's Original-From, so I guess just mention that the X- version was the 
> pre-standardization name and might still be in use in some places.
> I'll check the text but there is something like this.
> 
> Aside: I'm surprised that RFC5703 doesn't include the registration template 
> required by RFC3864.
> It is listed here: 
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/message-headers.xhtml#perm-headers

Dear Franck,

Nice Draft. 

After attending a conference dominated by what could be described as mass 
mailers, few expressed concerns about DMARC's impact on often popular uses of 
email.  As such, the draft 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-otis-dmarc-author-align was written to bring 
forward plausible approaches to deal with problems created by large user email 
providers abusing DMARC.  There really needs to be better solutions than 
overriding a domain's “reject” with “quarantine”.  From an email compatibility 
perspective, having a domain level assertion (that could be similarly 
overridden) permitting alignment with the Sender header field when present 
would spur change in how MUAs expose header fields playing a significant role 
in message handling. Such a change may take a period of time before this method 
is sufficiently supported. In the meantime, many users are finding themselves 
retrieving legitimate messages out of their spam folder which is teaching the 
wrong lesson.  

Alternatively, DMARC could take a bold step and redefine roles of the header 
fields by introducing a new header field able to carry non-aligned Author 
roles.  With DMARC, the From may be unable to retain its traditional role.  By 
adding a header field “Author" (instead of X-Original-From) not inadvertently 
exposed by an MUA to unwary users, this would allow mailing-lists and 
international email addresses necessary sanctuary from DMARC’s overly 
simplistic policy scheme.

It is not 2005 anymore.  We are seeing bot-nets take advantage of any weakness 
found or induced with DKIM or SPF.  We are working on better methods for 
detecting BGP injections, and attempting to correlate similar abuse methods. It 
is really unfortunate there are cases where DKIM remains vulnerable.  It also 
seems many of the vulnerabilities being exploited are also more than 1 year 
old.  This situation would be improved by offering a comprehensive definition 
of a valid DKIM signature.  No spec is perfect.  Once one realizes what it 
takes to detect BGP injections, SMTP/DANE begins to look much better.

Regards,
Douglas Otis
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