Re: [dmarc-ietf] Signaling MLMs

2023-04-12 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 12:45 PM Steven M Jones wrote: > This puts me in mind of Section 8.5, which calls out some potential > impacts of blocking policies to "Mediators," which role doesn't otherwise > appear very often in this document. Is there any need to add Mediator >

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Signaling MLMs

2023-04-12 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 11:41 AM Todd Herr wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 2:16 PM Murray S. Kucherawy > wrote: > >> I've been thinking about the point a few people have made now that DMARC >> has two actors that cause the problem: Those who "blindly" apply >> "p=reject", and those who

Re: [dmarc-ietf] THIS IS ABUSE (it might be)

2023-04-12 Thread John R Levine
On Wed, 12 Apr 2023, Eric D. Williams wrote: No, it's a DMARC problem. DKIM didn't cause any problems for mailing lists ... mailing lists the real answer is ARC not DMARC, that's what I'm saying. It's a failure with DKIM signature invalidation as a result of relaying via mailing lists. My

Re: [dmarc-ietf] THIS IS ABUSE (it might be)

2023-04-12 Thread Eric D. Williams
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 9:30 AM John R Levine wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2023, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > > On Sat 08/Apr/2023 15:59:30 +0200 John Levine wrote: > >> It appears that Eric D. Williams said: > >>> -=-=-=-=-=- > >>> > >>> I think the reliance upon list operators is properly placed on

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Signaling MLMs

2023-04-12 Thread Hector Santos
> On Apr 12, 2023, at 2:15 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > > I've been thinking about the point a few people have made now that DMARC has > two actors that cause the problem: Those who "blindly" apply "p=reject", and > those who advertise "p=reject". You do, indeed, need two to tango; >

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Signaling MLMs

2023-04-12 Thread Steven M Jones
On 4/12/23 11:15 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: The MLM can then decide if it is willing to pass the message unmodified to the list, or reject it with an error like "The policies of this list require modification of your message, which violates your domain's apparent policy.  Your submission

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Signaling MLMs

2023-04-12 Thread Douglas Foster
My own feeling is that lists should have a service agreement / disclosure statement that says, "We will modify your text in {manner} for {reason}.". "We will do {feature} to reduce the risk of unwanted or dangerous list posts". "We will do {feature} to minimize use of off-topic posts. The

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Signaling MLMs

2023-04-12 Thread Todd Herr
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 2:16 PM Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > I've been thinking about the point a few people have made now that DMARC > has two actors that cause the problem: Those who "blindly" apply > "p=reject", and those who advertise "p=reject". You do, indeed, need two > to tango;

[dmarc-ietf] Signaling MLMs

2023-04-12 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
I've been thinking about the point a few people have made now that DMARC has two actors that cause the problem: Those who "blindly" apply "p=reject", and those who advertise "p=reject". You do, indeed, need two to tango; enforcement doesn't happen without an advertising sender and a participating

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Example of Indirect Mail Flow Breakage with p=reject?

2023-04-12 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 8:27 AM Brotman, Alex wrote: > In the case of DNSSEC, my ISP is the intermediary utilizing DNSSEC, and > the website signs records via DNSSEC. The website I want to go to breaks > their DNSSEC. My ISP cannot retrieve a record to return to my browser that > can be used.

[dmarc-ietf] Introducing DSAP/ATPS for Improved Email Authentication

2023-04-12 Thread Hector Santos
Dear Alex and all, I appreciate your insights on the challenges of balancing security and interoperability, particularly in the context of DMARC and its implications on email delivery. I agree with your suggestion of adding a more detailed section on the implications of DMARC policies in

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC is designed to break mail, Example of Indirect Mail Flow Breakage with p=reject?

2023-04-12 Thread John R Levine
I note that you didn't write "MUST NOT". I heartily concur with "shouldn't" or SHOULD NOT. I still have issues with "MUST NOT". Keep in mind that MUST NOT doesn't mean "do this and you will die", it means "do this and you won't interoperate" which seems exactly correct here. SHOULD NOT

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC is designed to break mail, Example of Indirect Mail Flow Breakage with p=reject?

2023-04-12 Thread Dotzero
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 9:41 AM John R Levine wrote: > > When we say that mail systems that don't fit the DMARC threat profile > shouldn't publish DMARC policies, we have good reasons to say so, and > that's what our standards need to say if we're serious about > interoperating. > > R's, >

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC is designed to break mail, Example of Indirect Mail Flow Breakage with p=reject?

2023-04-12 Thread Hector Santos
> On Apr 12, 2023, at 9:41 AM, John R Levine wrote: > > When we say that mail systems that don't fit the DMARC threat profile > shouldn't publish DMARC policies, we have good reasons to say so, and that's > what our standards need to say if we're serious about interoperating. > With

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Example of Indirect Mail Flow Breakage with p=reject?

2023-04-12 Thread Brotman, Alex
In the case of DNSSEC, my ISP is the intermediary utilizing DNSSEC, and the website signs records via DNSSEC. The website I want to go to breaks their DNSSEC. My ISP cannot retrieve a record to return to my browser that can be used. A is the browser, B is the website, C is the ISP DNS

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Example of Indirect Mail Flow Breakage with p=reject?

2023-04-12 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 6:31 AM Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > To my mind, there's a substantial difference between something like TLSv1 > or HTTP whose deprecation excludes you from participating in something > until you upgrade, versus the DMARC situation where because of an > unfortunate

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC is designed to break mail, Example of Indirect Mail Flow Breakage with p=reject?

2023-04-12 Thread John R Levine
On Tue, 11 Apr 2023, Neil Anuskiewicz wrote: If DMARC can protect domains from spoofing which I believe ends up costing over $14 billion per year. Forget about the $14 billion and think how this crime spree affects people’s view But it obviously can't do that, and what it does do happens

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Example of Indirect Mail Flow Breakage with p=reject?

2023-04-12 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 5:20 AM Brotman, Alex wrote: > There is a non-zero set of cases where the IETF prefers security over > interoperability. A document like RFC8997/8996 where we've deprecated > TLSv1 in because it was no longer secure. I assure you there are still > systems/users who have

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Tree walk max depth concern and impact on reporting for domain owners working as expected

2023-04-12 Thread Scott Kitterman
On April 12, 2023 9:51:14 AM UTC, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >On Wed 12/Apr/2023 10:35:06 +0200 Scott Kitterman wrote: >> >> >> On April 12, 2023 7:27:12 AM UTC, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >>> On Fri 07/Apr/2023 00:03:49 +0200 Scott Kitterman wrote: On April 6, 2023 5:51:50 PM UTC,

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Example of Indirect Mail Flow Breakage with p=reject?

2023-04-12 Thread Brotman, Alex
There is a non-zero set of cases where the IETF prefers security over interoperability. A document like RFC8997/8996 where we've deprecated TLSv1 in because it was no longer secure. I assure you there are still systems/users who have devices incapable of TLSv1.2. DNSSEC (and things that

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows

2023-04-12 Thread Laura Atkins
> On 12 Apr 2023, at 12:21, Douglas Foster > wrote: > > Any form of security creates inconvenience. Yes. And we make tradeoffs between that. In this case, the security is ensuring that users at specific domains can and should only send mail through approved channels managed by those

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows

2023-04-12 Thread Douglas Foster
Any form of security creates inconvenience. Based on the header rewriting done by IETF, I have a hard time seeing how its rewrite of Comcast addresses can cause any of the problems that you cite. But does your domain require even headers toi be rewritten?Why doesn't IETF ask you, and omit

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows

2023-04-12 Thread Douglas Foster
Thank you for returning to the topic of stream identifiers. Email filtering is not about single messages, it is about identifying and classifying streams into high value (whitelist), low value (allow) and unwanted (block). I know existing filtering configurations that will conditionally block

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Example of Indirect Mail Flow Breakage with p=reject?

2023-04-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Wed 12/Apr/2023 07:10:26 +0200 Neil Anuskiewicz wrote: On Apr 11, 2023, at 9:25 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 8:25 PM Neil Anuskiewicz wrote: The standard and the document should reflect that it’s already making a massive difference and could do even more. The

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows

2023-04-12 Thread Laura Atkins
> On 12 Apr 2023, at 10:45, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > > On Sun 09/Apr/2023 09:50:46 +0200 Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: >> Mike Hammer asks, reasonably, whether an IETF standard containing a "MUST >> NOT" that we know people will ignore calls into question the IETFs relevance >> or legitimacy.

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Tree walk max depth concern and impact on reporting for domain owners working as expected

2023-04-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Wed 12/Apr/2023 10:35:06 +0200 Scott Kitterman wrote: On April 12, 2023 7:27:12 AM UTC, Alessandro Vesely wrote: On Fri 07/Apr/2023 00:03:49 +0200 Scott Kitterman wrote: On April 6, 2023 5:51:50 PM UTC, Alessandro Vesely wrote: On Thu 06/Apr/2023 00:54:15 +0200 Seth Blank wrote: I

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows

2023-04-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Sat 08/Apr/2023 23:27:26 +0200 Douglas Foster wrote: Even when the recipient and the evaluator have a great working relationship, neither party may understand what exceptions are needed for the messages from every participant, current or future, to be accepted reliably.   So the list

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows

2023-04-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Sun 09/Apr/2023 09:50:46 +0200 Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: Mike Hammer asks, reasonably, whether an IETF standard containing a "MUST NOT" that we know people will ignore calls into question the IETFs relevance or legitimacy.  But I submit that the IETF issuing a standards track document

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Tree walk max depth concern and impact on reporting for domain owners working as expected

2023-04-12 Thread Scott Kitterman
On April 12, 2023 7:27:12 AM UTC, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >On Fri 07/Apr/2023 00:03:49 +0200 Scott Kitterman wrote: >> On April 6, 2023 5:51:50 PM UTC, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >>> On Thu 06/Apr/2023 00:54:15 +0200 Seth Blank wrote: I don't feel strongly about N=10, but I do feel

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Tree walk max depth concern and impact on reporting for domain owners working as expected

2023-04-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Fri 07/Apr/2023 00:03:49 +0200 Scott Kitterman wrote: On April 6, 2023 5:51:50 PM UTC, Alessandro Vesely wrote: On Thu 06/Apr/2023 00:54:15 +0200 Seth Blank wrote: I don't feel strongly about N=10, but I do feel strongly that N=5 is insufficient. My gut feel is that 6 or 7 is likely more