There is no ‘unwanted information disclosure’ as they are disclosing their own 
information. If they didn’t want to disclose that information, they wouldn’t 
say anything. 

laura 



> On 16 Nov 2022, at 12:53, Douglas Foster 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I am suggesting less reporting, not trying to obligate more.
> 
> Let's try to understand the issue this way:   Would the following Facebook 
> post be wise or foolish?
> 
> "My house has 4 doors, and when I leave home, 3 of them are securely locked.'
> 
> Is there any unwanted information disclosure?
> 
> Doug
> 
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 6:23 AM Laura Atkins <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 16 Nov 2022, at 10:54, John R. Levine <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2022, Douglas Foster wrote:
>>> If a server farm hosts DomainA and DomainB, and I only get DMARC aggregate
>>> reports when I send to DomainA, then I can conclude that DomainB is not
>>> evaluating DMARC and is therefore more vulnerable to impersonation attacks
>>> than DomainA.
>> 
>> You can conclude whatever you want, but all you know is that they don't send 
>> reports.  You don't know whether they are looking at DMARC and for some 
>> "security" reason don't send them.
> 
> Seconding this. There was a major mailbox provider who host both free 
> consumer domains and a lot of corporate domains that didn’t send DMARC 
> reports. They were, in fact, evaluating DMARC, but they did not send reports 
> back. (I believe they are now, but it took a while). 
> 
>> In any event, the point of IETF standards is to tell people how to 
>> interoperate.  It is not our job to try to save people from themselves. If 
>> someone doesn't want to use DMARC, that's up to them, not to us or to you.
> 
> I don’t think it’s a good idea to obligate organizations to send reports if 
> they choose to evaluate DMARC.
> 
> laura 
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