Given Todd's comment that "DMAR" is well defined, but "C" is not-- is it worth explanatory text in the document? I don't think there's any real confusion about what Conformance means. Is it a weird gap to leave while we're updating the document, or does no one think it matters?
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 12:06 PM Dotzero <dotz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 2:31 PM Murray S. Kucherawy <superu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:22 AM Todd Herr <todd.herr= >> 40valimail....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote: >> >>> Why is the mechanism called "Domain-based Message Authentication, >>> Reporting, and Conformance" and not "Domain-based Message Authentication, >>> Reporting, and Disposition"? Perhaps a better question, why is >>> "conformance" in the name of the mechanism? >>> >> >> Two reasons I can think of: >> >> 1) "Conformance" describes the test as to whether a message meets the >> required authentication test(s). And one can reasonably infer from >> "Conformance" that a message which doesn't conform to the published >> authentication policy will be dealt with accordingly. >> >> 2) DMARC's antecedents (e.g., ADSP) were still part of what we considered >> email authentication, which is covered by the "A". >> >> -MSK >> > > "Conformance" was about conformance to the requested policy disposition. > We (dmarc.org participants) tossed around various acronyms as we > discussed the name. I'll also point out that the immediate antecedent to > DMARC was MOOCOW. ADSP was not a consideration other than problems to > avoid. "Authentication" referenced authenticating the domain associated > with the RFC822 From email address. > > Michael Hammer > _______________________________________________ > dmarc mailing list > dmarc@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc > -- *Seth Blank * | Chief Technology Officer *e:* s...@valimail.com *p:* This email and all data transmitted with it contains confidential and/or proprietary information intended solely for the use of individual(s) authorized to receive it. If you are not an intended and authorized recipient you are hereby notified of any use, disclosure, copying or distribution of the information included in this transmission is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately notify the sender by replying to this email and then delete it from your system.
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