And now following this up as chair:

I believe this topic has been discussed at length before and is well
settled: the working group's rough consensus on the tree walk is
clear.  Todd, please close issue 113 as settled, with no document
change needed.

Let's please avoid opening tickets on already-settled issues.

Barry, DMARC WG chair

On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 6:46 AM Douglas Foster
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have opened issue 113 to formally document my strong objections to the 
> current tree walk:
>
> Current DMARC policies are configured based on RFC7489 and the PSL, and 
> evaluators obtain results based on those implementation decisions. Domain 
> owners may have many reasons to want an alternative to the PSL: (1) The PSL 
> may contain errors that impact the domain owner's mail flow. (2) The PSL is 
> implemented in different iterations by different evaluators. (3) The RFC7489 
> / PSL algorithm does not allow for partitioned alignment within an 
> organization.
>
> Nonetheless, an evaluator has no justification for implementing an algorithm 
> which produces different results unless the domain owner indicates that he 
> prefers usage of that different algorithm. This can be accomplished by 
> tagging his DMARC policies to indicate which of the four possible roles 
> applies to a particular policy: Org Top, Subdomain, Org Top-and-Bottom 
> (single label registry), and Org Bottom (bottom layer of a multiple-layer 
> private registry), and DMARCbis should define those tags The current 
> upward-walk proposal will cause damage by directing evaluators to apply an 
> undesired and often incorrect re-interpretation of domain owner intent and 
> associated alignment boundaries.
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