In article <[email protected]> you write:
>Section 6.6.3, Policy Discovery.
>
>"If the remaining set contains multiple records or no records,
>policy discovery terminates and DMARC processing is not applied
>to this message."

Oh, look at that.  Thanks.

>> For that matter, what if anything does this mean?
>>
>> _dmarc.example.com IN TXT "v=DMARC1; p=none; p=reject"
>
>> In 7489 it says "DMARC records follow the extensible "tag-value"
>> syntax for DNS-based key records defined in DKIM [DKIM]."  I hope that
>> means they follow the DKIM rule that duplicate tags make the whole
>> record invalid, but that could be clearer.
>
>The definition of tag-value syntax in [DKIM] section 3.2 says "Tags
>with duplicate names MUST NOT occur within a single tag-list; if a tag
>name does occur more than once, the entire tag-list is invalid." This
>language could be repeated in the DMARC specification, but I don't see
>any real reason to do so.
>
>There's also a formal ABNF definition in 7489 section 6.4 which shows
>that duplicate tags aren't allowed.

I see that, but unfortunately the DMARC ABNF doesn't match the prose.
Section 6.3 says that unknown tags are ignored, but the ABNF syntax
doesn't allow them.

R's,
John

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