On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Scott Kitterman <skl...@kitterman.com>
wrote:

> The draft strongly encourages DMARC implementers to ignore SPF policy, so
> I don't think assuming messages will be deferred due only due to SPF or
> DKIM results indicating a temporary DNS error is appropriate.
>

If there's a transient DNS error getting the SPF policy, then there's no
SPF policy to be ignored.  That's quite a different situation.


> I think that in the case of a temporary DNS error in one of the lower
> level protocols, insufficient inputs are available to conclude a message
> has failed DMARC tests.
>

I agree.


> Receivers can either ignore DMARC for this message due to incomplete
> evaluation or they can defer the message in the hope that the temporary
> error will be resolved when the message is retried.  Receivers MUST NOT
> apply DMARC policy and reject or quarantine because the DMARC evaluation is
> incomplete.
>

Can you provide specific changes, with section numbers, that you'd like to
see applied to resolve this?

-MSK
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