My apology, Dave, for letting my frustration get the best of me.

Doug Foster

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From: Tim Wicinski <[email protected]>
Sent: 9/26/20 12:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Call for Adoption: DMARC Use of the RFC5322.Sender 
Header Field

And here we were getting along so well!

Mr Foster, it's perfectly fine to disagree with Mr Crocker technical points, 
and you are
welcome to have your own opinion on whether he chooses to hear or not.  But 
those opinions should
be kept to yourself.

I see a lot of these heated discussions as a sign that people really care about 
this issue. That's
a good thing.

For the record, I'm a DNS person.  I see most problems as being solved with 
more DNS, or less DNS.
I will say that I have had "passionate discussions" with Mr Crocker on several 
issues and I found that
it was not that he did not listen, but figuring out how to better explain my 
point of view.
Surprisingly to many, he does listen.

Whether this work is in scope for DMARC or not, I would plead guilty for not 
considering this carefully.
In the DNSOP working group I co-chair, *everything* DNS is in scope, until it 
is not in scope.
These types of discussions I was leaning on Seth, Alexey and of course Murray 
the AD.

thanks for listening.
tim

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 8:55 AM Douglas E. Foster 
<[email protected]> wrote:

The problems with your proposal have been well documented, but you apparently 
choose not to hear.   The single paragraph that Scott quoted has multiple 
problems within it.

The group has considered other and better technical proposals (conditional 
signatures, ATSP, RHSWL), but they have all been dropped because the group did 
not believe that Domain Owners would have any desire to implement them, and 
because Mailing List Operators would have no way of knowing which mailing lists 
had implemented the new feature.

If you have solutions to these problems, please put them forward.   Otherwise, 
why are we dragging this back up?

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From: Dave Crocker <[email protected]>
Sent: 9/25/20 11:04 PM
To: Scott Kitterman <[email protected]>
Cc: IETF DMARC WG <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Call for Adoption: DMARC Use of the RFC5322.Sender 
Header Field

On 9/25/2020 4:21 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:On Friday, September 25, 2020 
7:05:22 PM EDT Dave Crocker wrote:I think the obligation to justify is on the 
advocate for change.
That means you are demanding I prove  negative.  Which, of course, is an 
impossible assignment.

Rather, the obligation is on the person claiming the affirmative, which in this 
case means the claim that this proposal somehow 'breaks' or otherwise hurts 
DMARC.

Because the current email protection behavior involves the
RFC5322.From field, and pertain to the human author, it is common to
think that the issue, in protecting the field's content, is behavior
of the human recipient.  However there is no indication that the
enforced values in the RFC5322.From field alter end-user behavior.
In fact there is a long train of indication that it does not.
Rather, the meaningful protections actually operate at the level of
the receiving system's mail filtering engine, which decides on the
dispostion of received mail.

Please provide references for your long train of indications, speaking of
making overly broad assumptions.  If that's accurate, I'd like to understand
the data that tells us that.
I'm not going to do that, because there's a long history of that work being 
ignored, in spite of it being reviewed repeatedly in thse and related fora over 
the years.  It's gotten tiresome to have people claiming an effect that they 
lacks evidence for, and the data to the contrary that they are somehow unaware 
of.

Again, the real requirement is focus on the affirmative.

In this case, an affirmative claim that end-users are relevant to the efficacy 
of DMARC.  I don't recall seeing any research results validating such a view, 
but perhaps I missed it.

Well, ok, here's one that shows lack of efficacy, and it's a big one:  EV-certs

Google to bury indicator for Extended Validation certs in Chrome because users 
barely took notice

https://www.theregister.com/2019/08/12/google_chrome_extended_validation_certificates/

"The reason is simple. "Through our own research as well as a survey of prior 
academic work, the Chrome Security UX team has determined that the EV UI does 
not protect users as intended... users do not appear to make secure choice..."

If this is just an input into an algorithm, then your assertion that you are
only providing another input is supportable, but that's contrary to the DMARC
design.
Perhaps you have not noticed but the demonstrated field use of DMARC, to date, 
tends to be contrary to the design, to the extent anyone thinks that the design 
carries a mandate that receivers follow the directives of the domain owners.

So the text in the draft merely reflects real-world operational style.

d/

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