Aaron, 

Yes, that's what I was referring to, and I now see your comments, along with 
Dan's.  I think we'd welcome feedback from all interested parties, even if they 
don't believe it to be a universal solution.  Eventually, we'll have a mailing 
list hosted somewhere so that others can easily follow along.

--
Alex Brotman
Engineer, Anti-Abuse
Comcast
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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Zauner [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 5:56 PM
To: Brotman, Alexander <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Uta] Dealing with STARTTLS Stripping



Brotman, Alexander wrote:
> Aaron,
> 
> There's a group of folks from M3AAWG that are working toward a sort of 
> mechanism for SMTP, roughly using some ideas relating to HSTS and/or 
> certificate transparency.  The idea being that you would specify a published 
> policy where a sender can see that you expect that sessions will be 
> encrypted, and report TLS failures to the receiving system (without TLS).
> 

I think you're talking about smtp-sts.

And I also think I've broken your proposal in this GitHub issue:
https://github.com/mrisher/smtp-sts/issues/1

I'm very appreciative to any efforts into that direction but they need to be 
scalable and need to be deployable to all of the 4mio MXs on the Internet that 
aren't a major mail hosting provider. Please do not go with DNS. I'm not saying 
that my proposal is perfect. Far from it but if we collaborate something useful 
for everyone (even mail exchanges with a single domain) could be worked out.

Aaron

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