Hi Adrian,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Farrel [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:07 AM
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> Subject: Adrian Farrel's No Objection on draft-ietf-marf-as-15: (with
> COMMENT)
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> Adrian Farrel has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-marf-as-15: No Objection
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> Forgive me, but doesn't section 8.2 say that forged abuse reports
> constitue a real problem and the two mechanisms available to protect
> against them may result in genuine abuse reports being discarded?

Yes to the first point.  The second point is true of all email, not just abuse 
reports; if the signer's infrastructure is causing signatures to break, there's 
no reason to trust the reports even though they bear some kind of signature.  
The same goes for, say, a message from your bank that's signed but the 
signature fails to validate.

> Is the message here "chosse which you think might be the least worse
> problem" or is it "you should use DKIM and SPF, but be aware that you
> may lose some genuine reports"?

It's "You should use DKIM and/or SPF, but make sure they're working properly if 
you want to reap the benefits."

> I would have liked some clarification as to which message is being
> sent.

That section is only talking about reports.  Which part is unclear?

-MSK
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