My comments about From validation were based on the wording of the RFCs, so I 
stand by what I said.

But are your really arguing that no one in the Mailing List business paid 
attention to the concerns about the fraud and spoofing problems with email?

This morning I had a conversation with the CEO of a company that was hit by 
ransomware which arrived with the help of a single email.   He is slowly 
getting his company back after paying a lot of money to people who want to 
destroy us.

That is the problem we should be worried about.   And that is why I am letting 
my emotions show.  This WG is playing the fiddle while Rome burns.

Doug

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From: "John Levine" <[email protected]>
Sent: 8/15/20 6:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Call for Adoption: DMARC Use of the RFC5322.Sender 
Header Field
In article <[email protected]> you write:
>Based on the discussions here, it appears that the notion of From address 
>validation was envisioned from the
>beginning Sender Authentication discussions. We have written evidence that 
>Form address validation was
>anticipated in the DKIM and ATPS RFCs prior to DMARC.

Not really. DKIM was deliberately designed not to be tied to any
visible part of the message. ADSP was a poorly designed hack that was
never implemented other than small experiments, and that I don't think
many people understood. I got a lot of grief for making the most
strict policy "discardable" even though that's obviously what it was.

R's,
John
--
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