On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon 30/Jun/2025 17:44:10 +0200 Dotzero wrote:
> > I propose the following tweak to the Introduction of the Failure
> Reporting
> > draft:
>
>
> A couple of questions:
>
>
> > Failure reports (RUF) provide detailed information about the failure of
> a
> > single message, or a group of similar messages failing for the same
> reason.
>
>
> What is the meaning of RUF?  I tend to imagine something like Reporting
> Url
> (for) Failure (reports), which refers to an email address, not the report
> itself.
>

It's just a tag value defined in the main DMARC document. I wouldn't get
too hung up on it. Originally we used the phrase "forensic report" but that
morphed into "failure report".

>
>
> > They are meant to aid in a) cases where a Domain Owner is unable to
> detect why
> > failures that were reported in aggregate form occurred or b) it is
> important to
> > the Sender domain to quickly identify and address mail involving abusive
> mail
> > involving direct domain abuse.
>
>
> This sentence needs rewording, since (a) and (b) are not symmetric.  How
> about:
>
>      Their purpose is twofold.  On the one hand they are meant to aid in
> cases
>      where a Domain Owner is unable to detect why failures that were
> reported in
>      aggregate form occurred.  On the other hand, they can allow the Sender
>      domain to quickly identify and address harmful messages involving
> direct
>      domain abuse.
>

Your wording is much more elegant. I agree with your wording.

Michael Hammer
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