Yes this is used in a significant way, dropping the mechanic of the org-domain 
would make a lot of things in processing inbound mail streams a lot more 
complicated.

The PSL does not exists for DKIM or DMARC, it is a product of the CAB forum. 
And the idea was borrowed for DMARC, but without it, DMARC will have a hard 
time, and depending standards as well. I don't want to discuss how good or bad 
BIMI is, but without an "org-domain" it doesn't work. But if DMARC as one of 
the base requirements for BIMI drops the "org-domain" mechanic, you really need 
to produce a better alternative than, simply stating that things that are 
currently OK to do, are not used by enough entities and could be abandoned.

I see a couple billion mails per week and can assure you that 5322.From's with 
a Sub-Domain but signed with the org-domain are a regular picture of totally 
valid mail streams, and this whole concept goes even deeper for large mail 
processors. It makes a huge difference for measuring reputation and 
responsibilities. And I think that this should be the baseline for the 
discussion here. As a mail receiver, I would at least assume, I and most of my 
colleagues use the org-domain concept to pin responsibilities to a clear and 
dedicated entity. If we abandon this, we are opening additional attack vectors 
without any increase in functionality and even increasing the complexity for 
almost all parties, only for the sake of getting the PSL out of the equation. 

Querying the PSL in a compiled trie data structure is much faster than even 
doing one DNS request, and even with the private part of the PSL this is a 
couple MB of memory. I get Mails that are larger than downloading the PSL once 
per day for a year. So why are we having this discussion? I know the PSL is not 
perfect, and I'm totally in for change if something doesn't work, but we have 
seen that DBound didn't made it and there are no real heavy usage PSL 
alternatives.

And one thing I really don't get, why do we want to solve that so heavily that 
we use scare tactics with phrasing like "if we don't solve it now, we would 
need to write another RFC in a couple of years", isn't that totally fine, for a 
standard to evolve and update it if it needs an update?

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: dmarc <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von Scott Kitterman
Gesendet: Montag, 1. November 2021 21:24
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [dmarc-ietf] same old org domain, Topic for IETF 112 - Policy 
Discovery

On Monday, November 1, 2021 3:17:05 PM EDT Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> From: [email protected], signed by example.org which also publishes 
> a policy has to be valid.

Why?  Do you know of this construct being used in any significant way?

Scott K


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