I didn’t we need to mention the type of people, organization, etc.

“This is particularly important because SPF will always fail in situations 
where mail is forwarded.”  

The issue applies to all.

> On Apr 13, 2023, at 12:04 PM, Todd Herr 
> <todd.herr=40valimail....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 11:21 AM Barry Leiba <barryle...@computer.org 
> <mailto:barryle...@computer.org>> wrote:
>> > Anyone who does forwarding is damaged by DMARC because there are a lot of
>> > people who do DMARC on the cheap with SPF only.
>> 
>> This brings up another issue, I think: that there should also be
>> stronger advice that using DKIM is critical to DMARC reliability, and
>> using SPF only, without DKIM, is strongly NOT RECOMMENDED.
>> 
> I don't disagree.
> 
> How do we make the following text stronger?
> 5.5.2.  
> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-27.html#section-5.5.2>Configure
>  Sending System for DKIM Signing Using an Aligned Domain 
> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-27.html#name-configure-sending-system-fo>
> While it is possible to secure a DMARC pass verdict based on only one of SPF 
> or DKIM, it is commonly accepted best practice to ensure that both 
> authentication mechanisms are in place to guard against failure of just one 
> of them.
> 
> This is particularly important because SPF will always fail in situations 
> where mail is sent to a forwarding address offered by a professional society, 
> school or other institution, where the address simply relays the message to 
> the recipient's current "real" address. Many recipients use such addresses 
> and with SPF alone and not DKIM, messages sent to such users will always 
> produce DMARC fail. 
> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-27.html#section-5.5.2-2>
> The Domain Owner SHOULD choose a DKIM-Signing domain (i.e., the d= domain in 
> the DKIM-Signature header) that aligns with the Author Domain.
> 
> 
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