I can agree with the premise of this version. This expanded definition of "general purpose" domains makes it somewhat more clear what/who the intended target for the language is.
- Mark Alley On Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 4:16 AM Matthäus Wander <mail= [email protected]> wrote: > Barry Leiba wrote on 2023-04-14 03:52: > > As to "what constitutes general purpose", if you are providing email > > addresses to the general public, that qualifies. If your domain is > > sending email only from employees, and you have policies about > > employees using their email addresses to conduct business, then that's > > a different issue. Of course, if their business involves posting to > > mailing lists, you have some decisions to make. > > How about this? > > 5.5.6. Decide If and When to Update DMARC Policy > > Once the Domain Owner is satisfied that it is properly authenticating > all of its mail, then it is time to decide if it is appropriate to > change the p= value in its DMARC record to p=quarantine or p=reject. > Depending on its cadence for sending mail, it may take many months of > consuming DMARC aggregate reports before a Domain Owner reaches the > point where it is sure that it is properly authenticating all of its > mail, and the decision on which p= value to use will depend on its > needs. > > It is important to understand that the Domain Owner may never use > a policy of p=quarantine or p=reject, and that these policies are > intended not as goals, but as policies available for use when they > are appropriate. In particular, domains with users from the general > public, where the Domain Owner has no overview about and no > intention to govern with who their users communicate with, MUST NOT > deploy a policy of p=reject to preserve interoperability. In such > scenarios, the deployment of a policy other than p=none can disrupt > indirect mail flows and cause damage to the operation of mailing > lists and other forwarding services that are incompatible with > DMARC. This is discussed in [RFC7960] and in Section 5.8, below. > > Regards, > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > dmarc mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc >
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