Issue 180 has been opened in regards to this notice -
https://github.com/ietf-wg-dmarc/draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis/issues/180

On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM Roman Danyliw via Datatracker <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Roman Danyliw has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-38: Discuss
>
> When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all
> email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this
> introductory paragraph, however.)
>
>
> Please refer to
> https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/statements/handling-ballot-positions/
> for more information about how to handle DISCUSS and COMMENT positions.
>
>
> The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis/
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> DISCUSS:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ** Section 9.3. and 9.4.  Status column
>
> -- Section 9.3 “Each registration includes the tag name; the specification
> that
> defines it; a brief description; and its status, which is one of "current",
> "experimental", or "historic".”
>
> -- Section 9.4 “In addition to a reference to a permanent specification,
> each
> registration    includes the format name, a brief description, and its
> status,
> which must be one of "current", "experimental", or "historic".”
>
> The status column was defined in RFC7489 and already in the existing IANA
> registries.  However, there doesn't appear to be adequate guidance on
> setting
> and using it.  Specifically:
>
> (1) What are the criteria used to set a particular code point to “current”,
> “experimental” or “historical” status?  There is no guidance for the
> designated
> expert.
>
> It can’t be the status of a given RFC since the registration procedure is
> “specification required” allowing for non-RFC documents.  Section 9.3
> appears
> to be updating the registry to amend existing code points to historic
> status
> (e.g., pct, rf, ri) so the WG must have some intuition that would benefit
> from
> being document here.
>
> (2) What does experimental or historic signal to implementers?  What do
> they do
> with this information?
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> COMMENT:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thank you to Ines Robles for the GENART review.
>
> ** Section 4.7
>    v:  Version (plain-text; REQUIRED).  Identifies the record retrieved
>       as a DMARC Policy Record.  It MUST have the value of "DMARC1".
>       The value of this tag MUST match precisely;
>
> What does it mean to “match precisely”?  Is this saying a case-sensitive
> match
> to “DMARC1”?  I ask because the meaning of the two sentences isn’t clear
> to me.
>
> Isn’t this first normative MUST duplicative to the ABNF in Section 4.8
> (i.e.,
> “dmarc-version = "v" equals %s"DMARC1"”)
>
> ** Section 4.6
> (a)    v:  Version (plain-text; REQUIRED).  Identifies the record retrieved
>       as a DMARC Policy Record.  It MUST have the value of "DMARC1".
>       The value of this tag MUST match precisely; if it does not or it
>       is absent, the entire record MUST be ignored.  It MUST be the
>       first tag in the list.
>
> (b)   A DMARC Policy Record MUST comply with the formal specification found
>    in Section 4.8 in that the "v" tag MUST be present and MUST appear
>    first.
>
> Isn’t there duplication here.  Both (a) and (b) say that v must appear
> first
> AND is required.
>
> ** Section 5.4
>    Mail Receivers are encouraged to maintain anti-abuse technologies to
>    combat the possibility of DMARC-enabled criminal campaigns.
>
> No issues with the sentiment.  However, is the WG confident that “criminal
> campaigns” isn’t too narrow?  For example, what about DMARC-enabled
> espionage
> campaigns?  Could this sentence read (roughly) “Mail Receivers are
> encouraged
> to maintain anti-abuse technologies to mitigate the possibility of
> DMARC-enabled abuse”?
>
> ** Section 9.2
>    IANA has added the following in the "Email Authentication Result
>    Names" registry:
>
> -- There are already entries for these Auth Methods.  Shouldn’t the
> guidance be
> to replace the reference for them to this document?
>
> -- The current references for each of these Auth Methods includes a section
> number for RFC7489.  Should section numbers be added for each reference
> here?
>
> ** Section 9.3
>   The set of entries to be defined in this registry is as follows:
>
> As above, the current registry has already registered all of these.  The
> key
> detail is that some have had their status changed and an updated reference
> is
> needed.
>
> Same comment for Section 9.4
>
>
>
>

-- 
Todd Herr
Some Guy in VA LLC
[email protected]
703-220-4153
Book Time With Me: https://calendar.app.google/tGDuDzbThBdTp3Wx8
_______________________________________________
dmarc mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]

Reply via email to