Hector, it sounds like you are saying that SPF is all we need, so scrap
DMARC.   If it is something else please clarify.

Doug

On Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 4:44 PM Hector Santos <hsantos=
40isdg....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Apr 14, 2023, at 3:20 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy <superu...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 10:20 AM Alessandro Vesely <ves...@tana.it> wrote:
>
>> On Fri 14/Apr/2023 15:47:12 +0200 Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> > On April 14, 2023 1:29:58 PM UTC, "Murray S. Kucherawy" <
>> superu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 4:31 AM Alessandro Vesely <ves...@tana.it>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Heck, MLMs should start rejecting messages sent from domains that
>> publish a
>> >>> blocking policy *when they fail authentication on entry*!!
>> >>
>> >> That's not enough to avoid the damage we're talking about.
>>
>> Agreed.  Yet, it is a sane half-way between crazy rejecting always and
>> completely ignoring ABUSE.
>>
>
> Both DKIM (certainly) and SPF (I'm pretty sure) advocate against rejection
> of messages merely because they fail authentication on ingress.
>
>
> And respectfully, SPF always had a strong reject, hard fail policy concept
> since it's LMAP R&D upbringing — immediate rejection, 55z rejection code.
>
> Why Not?  It was optimized.  It served a purpose to address spoofs.
> Partial, Neutral and Unknown results were possible. That was suppose to be
> feed to a heuristics, highly subjective Reputation Engine. After exactly 20
> years of data, SPF rejection rate is 6.3% of the incoming rejection
> reasons. https://winserver.com/public/spamstats.wct
>
> I agree there are better solutions, but they're not yet developed.  As
>> ugly as
>> it may be, From: munging is the emerged solution.  It is a _fact_.  Now
>> repeat
>> again that the IETF standardized facts, not theories...
>>
>
> Let's put the challenge back on you: Where's your evidence that From
> munging is the emerged consensus solution that this working group should
> standardize?  Where is this _fact_?  If we advance that as a Proposed
> Standard, the community will quite reasonably ask why we think this is
> true, and we're going to need to be able to answer them.  If working group
> consensus agrees, then away we go.
>
>
> As much as I am an original mail engineering purest (anyone here ever work
> with Fidonet?) and therefore consider it to be a fundamental taboo to
> destroy originating copyrighted authorship of anything, the MLS/MLM needs
> to evolve to handle the various 1::many broadcasting distributions under a
> new security umbrella.
>
> Because the current DMARCbis umbrella ist not providing 100% coverage, for
> the MLS./MLM, it needs to do one of two things;  restrict
> subscription/submissions or strip the security and rewrite the copyrighting
> authorship, perpetuating a potential harm including legal.
>
> The latter is not preferred.  The former would be normal part of a
> protocol complete algorithm. You would do the former always.  It’s the
> easiest.  No need to modify the MLS.  Just the MLM low code provisional
> scripts.
>
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