Thanks for the question, Seth.
What would be the best way to incorporate this requirement?
The simplest possible way to address this use case is just to make sure those 
existing but currently non-compliant domains just have a bare p=none record. 
Then they'll never fall back to the 
gov.uk<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgov.uk&data=02%7C01%7CRichard.C%40ncsc.gov.uk%7C5e404b44633f4f62576c08d6e558b353%7C14aa5744ece1474ea2d734f46dda64a1%7C0%7C0%7C636948566460672014&sdata=ihf4soMa8kR%2BcGFwjiIwgy9iHDnrnKLkawsj0Zm9Mi4%3D&reserved=0>
 record. There's no risk to inadvertently breaking mail here.

Is it remotely realistic for you to offer this guidance? If you're already 
saying that p=reject is required, how painful is it to advertise that any 
domain without a DMARC record will get p=reject by default unless it explicitly 
puts p=none in?

I wish that publishing guidance resulted in swift adoption of it but 
unfortunately it’s not so simple. We already have guidance published requesting 
that organisations configure DMARC on their gov.uk domain (starting at ‘none’ 
and progressing to ‘reject’ as they gain confidence). The problem is we have 
~3500 domains in use, many by smaller organisations with limited technical 
ability. Whilst we’ll continue to work towards helping them all deploy DMARC, 
realistically there will be a long tail to adoption, hence our interest in 
support for different policies for the existent and non-existent subdomains in 
DMARC PSD.

Presumably other PSDs that aren’t brand new will have this problem too? I’m 
interested to hear whether we’re on our own or not.

Richard
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