This is not a matter of *whether* you reject during the SMTP interchange as
how to do it in a meaningful way *if* you do so. The discussion about
signaling that the domain authentication failure led to the rejection is
the point of this section.

--Kurt

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 4:36 PM, John R. Levine <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree, this is out of place.  Whether you reject at SMTP time is a much
> broader topic than ARC failures.
>
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, Seth Blank wrote:
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dmarc-arc-protocol-16#section-5.2.2
>>
>> I am confused as to where this section comes from. It was never discussed
>> on list, and I believe it should be stricken.
>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/dmarc/?q=5.7.7 has no results
>> except for Dave Crocker's document evaluations with comments on the full
>> text.
>>
>> At IETF99 and on the list, there was a conversation around handling
>> tempfails, where the consensus was that we couldn't handle them. That
>> resulted in the "all failures are permanent" section of the document.
>> However, other text for handling tempfails showed up, was discussed, and
>> then removed (
>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dmarc/DmRu-_P-ZtfSjA1k6KUe-Zk0ACY).
>>
>>
> Regards,
> John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> Dummies",
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