It appears that Scott Kitterman  <[email protected]> said:
>It's growing on me.

Ooh, cool.

>There are, however privacy and security concern differences between processing 
>a record for _dmarc.example.com and _dmarc.com.  We can, and should explain 
>those differences in the security and privacy considerations sections of the 
>eventual DMARC RFC, but if com should publish a DMARC policy is really between 
>the operator of com and ICANN and if ICANN were to allow it, it would be up to 
>com domain registrants to decide how to deal with it (to be clear, I think it  
>would be horrible if that happened, but that's not a technical, 
>interoperability horror, it's about privacy and security).

Right - it's not a problem with a technical solution.

I know several of the people who run the PSL and while they try very
hard to do a good job, they are just volunteers and have no unique insight
into DNS policy truth.  There are a few places where they have specifically
decided to punt, like not including the 15,000 2LDs in .name under which they
sell 3LDs.

>Technically, the change is:
>
>Lookup policy and if not found, lookup up the next level (up to 4) instead of 
>lookup policy and if not found, consult PSL and lookup the org domain.
>
>For the common case like eml.example.com where there is no DMARC record the 
>trade is one extra DNS lookup in exchange for getting the PSL out of the 
>equation.  

Sounds right.

>Assuming I have that right, I think that is a reasonable path forward that 
>would solve a number of problems.  The key is to get the security and privacy 
>considerations documented so that ICANN and ccTLD operators are informed and 
>can set their own rules appropriate.

I would be pretty surprised if ICANN had any interest in this other than using
their existing RSTEP process if some TLDs want to publish _dmarc.<tld>.

R's,
John

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