Apologies for repeating myself here and creating noise.  I'm just
re-walking through the thread, trying to get to Scott's subsequent
response, which I wanted to get to.
-Wei

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 12:19 AM Wei Chuang <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 9:11 AM Scott Kitterman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> For the replay resistance part of the question, I think it would make
>> sense to wait and see how the DKIM working group addresses the problem for
>> DKIM generally and then assess how their solution impacts ARC and how it
>> addresses the issue for ARC.
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
>
>> I think the question of spamminess is orthogonal to the authentication
>> questions that ARC attempts to answer.  It's subjective, so I don't think
>> it can really play into ARC.
>>
>
> Agreed.  I'd like to encourage folks to generate ARC headers even if the
> message is perceived to be somehow spammy.
>
>
>> Additionally, if the intermediary thinks a message is bad (spam), then
>> the solution is to not send the message onward and try to make it someone
>> else's problem.
>>
>
> Some of this is because the intermediary doesn't realize a particular
> message is spammy.  However the forwarder suspects that some forwarded mail
> might contain spam, and doesn't want to help authenticate that at all,
> hence doesn't generate ARC headers. This despite knowing it could help the
> receiver better apply DMARC policy.
>
> -Wei
>
>
>> Scott K
>>
>> On March 14, 2023 2:49:30 PM UTC, Wei Chuang <weihaw=
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> >Hi all,
>> >We've been making use of ARC to help with forwarded mail.  One thing
>> we've
>> >noticed is differences for when some forwarders generate the ARC headers.
>> >Another concern is that we've seen spammers attempt to manipulate ARC
>> >headers.
>> >1) ARC could benefit from more refinement of interop such as when to
>> >generate ARC headers e.g. if the message appears spammy? and how should
>> the
>> >ARC-Authentication-Results be reported if there is a local policy
>> >override?  Would it be helpful to clarify this with a BCP?
>> >2) Considerations on what to do about ARC header spoofing and replay.  I
>> >have an I-D
>> >https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chuang-replay-resistant-arc/ that
>> >outlines some ideas on mitigating that (particularly the "SeRCi" idea) as
>> >one starting point.  (In case it matters I should point out the DARA idea
>> >in the draft is more oriented towards DKIM).
>> >-Wei
>>
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