On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 9:08 AM Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On December 6, 2021 1:35:10 PM UTC, Todd Herr <todd.herr=
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 7:45 AM Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
> >>                            Should any overlooked systems be found in the
> >>     reports, the Domain Owner can adjust the SPF record and/or configure
> >>     DKIM signing for those systems.
> >>
> >> I'd s/overlooked systems/failures/, since surprises can also arise from
> >> systems
> >> that the Domain Owner considered to have been set up well.
> >>
> >
> >How about:
> >
> >"Should any authentication failures for systems under the Domain Owner's
> >control be found in the reports, the Domain Owner can adjust the SPF
> record
> >and/or configure DKIM signing for those systems."
> >
> Have mercy for the poor admins whose bosses will waive this at them and
> demand they "fix" all the issues in their failure reports.  Most cases of
> DMARC failure are outside the control of the sending domain and this
> doesn't seem to acknowledge that at all.  Yes, maybe the DNS group decided
> one day to prettify their zone files by lower casing everything and now
> everything is getting a DKIM fail, but usually it's a problem elsewhere.
>
> Maybe add "caused by local misconfiguration or omission" after
> authentication failures?
>
>
In the interests of future-proofing, should there ever be additional
underlying authentication protocols, I propose this:

Should any authentication failures for systems

under the Domain Owner's control be found in the reports, in cases

where the failures are caused by local misconfiguration or omission

the Domain Owner can take steps to address such failures.


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