Proceed to hit publish. I support this draft. Thank you all for taking
the time to answer my questions and concerns!

Cheers,
Al Iverson

On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM Barry Leiba <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think this seems like diminishing returns, and I'm inclined to push
> the "publish" button tomorrow after the IETF meeting ends.  If you
> really want to pursue this we can handle it as an IETF Last Call
> issue.  But, really, think about whether it's worth the trouble for
> the benefit.
>
> Barry
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM Al Iverson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed 05/Nov/2025 17:57:33 +0100 Al Iverson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I think it was overkill to remove (sometimes referred to as "forensic
> > > > reports") from section 7. I don't know enough to know if there's an
> > > > IETF terminology reason to remove that, but assuming not, my
> > > > recommendation is to restore it, just because it helps drive
> > > > understanding -- driving the connection that regardless of which term
> > > > is used, that's what we're ultimately referring to. Meaning, it
> > > > bridges an understanding gap, and that's generally a positive thing.
> > >
> > > Todd asked for it to be removed, because the word "forensic" doesn't 
> > > appear in
> > > either DMARCbis or the Aggregate Reporting document.
> > >
> > > If we want to restore it, it should be after the first occurrence of the 
> > > term
> > > "Failure reports", in the Introduction.
> >
> > Thank you for this. Not sure that I have much of a strong opinion on
> > this after all, the more I think about it. I think I'll let that go
> > unless others pipe up with a strong opinion.
> >
> > > > Also in section 7, I don't understand this statement: "On the other
> > > > hand, a Domain Owner publishing an internal Report Consumer, can put a
> > > > dot-forward at that mailbox." Could somebody ELI5? I mean, I know what
> > > > email forwarding is, and I understand most of these words, but I think
> > > > there's context missing. (I'd also suggest rewording it to not use the
> > > > inside baseball term "dot-forward," but I'm not able to offer a
> > > > rewrite because I'm missing something about the broader context of the
> > > > statement.)
> > >
> > > Section 7.2 speculates on the recipient type indicated in the ruf=tag.  It
> > > prompts report generator to consider the recipient type they are sending
> > > reports to.  Invoking dot-forward warns that, in any case, the 
> > > information a
> > > report generator reads from the DMARC Policy record may not include all 
> > > end
> > > recipients.
> >
> > Thank you for explaining! My suggestion would be a reword like: "On
> > the other hand, a Domain Owner publishing an Internal Report Consumer
> > could be publishing a destination address that is actually some time
> > of forwarding address, meaning that a report's final destination may
> > not be guaranteed." Or something like that. Though I grant how saying
> > "dot forward" is a concise way of explaining that to an email nerd, I
> > am not totally sure that's how you'd want to write a technical
> > document about it. Anybody agree/disagree?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Al Iverson
> >
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