----- Original Message -----

> From: "Murray S. Kucherawy" <superu...@gmail.com>
> To: "Franck Martin" <fra...@peachymango.org>
> Cc: dmarc@ietf.org, "Scott Kitterman" <skl...@kitterman.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 11:20:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Jim Fenton's review of -04

> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Franck Martin < fra...@peachymango.org >
> wrote:

> > I think we should recommend something here, not sure if it needs to be
> > normative. We do say to ignore the SPF policy when p!=none, though I think
> > we can be normative on the lower layers. I see 2 options here:
> 
> > 1)tempfail the message is either SPF and DKIM have a tempfail status
> 
> > 2)tempfail the message if both SPF and DKIM have a tempfail status
> 

> > 1) is my preferred and is aggressive, therefore not sure people will like
> > it.
> > I'll settle for 2)
> 

> > As explained in another post, I'm worried I can run a DNS attack (or just a
> > self inflicted DNS bad config) and get DMARC to reject emails it should
> > have
> > accepted (has the DMARC policy in cache, but cannot assert SPF and DKIM).
> 

> I think it's reasonably clear from 5.6.3 that the "fail open" choice is
> possibly dangerous, as is anything that fails open.

> But more importantly, I'm also worried about making a normative decision now
> about something we deliberately haven't specified up to this point for
> whatever reason. We are supposed to be documenting current practice with
> this effort, not establishing something new.

> Might this something best left for the standards track WG effort?

Fair enough, but curious about standard practice. For instance what openDMARC 
do? and others? 

I think DMARC got us to be "stricter" and less "lenient" with email. 
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