>Now that I'm working on my implementation of draft-ietf-marf-spf-reporting, 
>I'm questioning where the requirement for message bodies or headers in ARFs 
>is.

Interesting question.

ARF is a version of multipart/report as defined in RFC 3462.  In that
document, the message/rfc822 or message/headers is optional.  In RFC
5965, we made it mandatory in section 2.d.  We did that because
the usage scenario we were thinking of was spam button reports where
you always have a message in hand, not for any deeper reason.

You are of course correct that SPF failures sometimes don't accept the
message.  I'd be willing to file an erratum that 2.d. should have said
that the report MUST include the message if the reporting entity has
received it.

R's,
John

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