On October 25, 2023 11:56:25 AM UTC, Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Wed 25/Oct/2023 13:12:32 +0200 Barry Leiba wrote:
>>>> * Is there consensus on moving ahead with the idea of a way to indicate 
>>>> which authentication method(s) the Domain Owner wants Receivers to use?  
>>>> If so, it doesn't seem to be in the document yet.
>>> 
>>> My recall is that we want to limit DMARC evaluation to DKIM only, for the 
>>> edge cases of domains with over-wide SPF policies, since they proved to be 
>>> vulnerable to false DMARC pass.  The WG discussed the possibility to also 
>>> require both methods to limit replay, and concluded that the idea was a 
>>> foot gun.  Hence the WG agreed on the comma syntax.
>> 
>> My reading of the discussion is:
>> 
>> 1. We did not have rough consensus to eliminate the use of SPF in DMARC.
>
>
>Yes.
>
>
>> 2. We did not have rough consensus to complicate DMARC by having the 
>> publishing domain specify authentication methods.
>
>
>One thread started here:
>https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dmarc/PDktxOYkB28k6ukLDgDqlp6NEGw/
>
>It ends up with Wei recapitulating the thread and summarizing the changes to 
>the draft.  No objections.  I expected those changes to be carried out.
>
>
>> Ale, you're saying that my reading on (2) is wrong, yes?  Can you provide 
>> support for that?
>
>
>I had only seen Scott's reading, which surprised me.  After you and Michael 
>hold that no agreement was reached, I begin to doubt of my reading myself.
>
>In particular, since there is a paper[*] showing how a "spoofed email
>purporting to be [email protected] is delivered to a Gmail user’s inbox with no 
>warning indicators", Wei's argument seemed to be fully reasonable.
>
>What outstanding objections were there?

The purported use case is "my SPF is so awful you can't trust it and at the 
same time, so critical I still have to publish the record".  I don't think 
that's a real thing.

If your SPF is unreliable, fix it or delete it.  Not a DMARC problem.

Scott K

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