I’d say it’s best practice to have a separate policy subdomains. We should encourage it.

foo.example.com’s spoofed by one vendor most likely, so switching vendors isn’t too big a task. No need to roll example.com back to none. Just role foo back. It’s clearly a better way to go. 

Set things up so when you make changes, you open up a tiny security hole for as short a time as possible. So if dmarcbis exncourages subdomain dmarc policies then let’s encourage that with clear words and clear policies.

On Oct 7, 2023, at 11:44 AM, Douglas Foster <dougfoster.emailstanda...@gmail.com> wrote:


No, this is not a false positive.  The PSL put all of the identifiers in a 2LD organization, which I reviewed and judged to be correct.


The problem happens when Mail From u...@bounce.example.com authenticates u...@example.com and both domains have DMARC policies.  Removing the lower policy is the only remedy.   For SPF, this pattern of child-authenticates-parent is quite common.  Hsving multipke DMARC policies is less common. 

Again, what previous data was presented to justify the consensus that we would see no probems? 

Doug

On Sat, Oct 7, 2023, 1:26 PM Richard Clayton <rich...@highwayman.com> wrote:
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>    So initially, I am asking for a compsrison between my results and
>    the data used to justify the asserted consensus.

if you published the data (just the right hand side of relevant
addresses is needed) we could check your working ...

>    Was 2% previuosly observed and judged acceptable?  Were the
>    previous error rates judged acceptable because they were computed
>    using a different denominator definition?

clearly if you get 10 messages from odd-domain and 10 messages from
Google then you will see a different percentage than someone who gets 3
(or some days 0) messages from odd-domain and 1000000 from Google ...
but provided odd-domain isn't just sending to you then any large mailbox
provider should have seen enough mail to provide a sensible measure of
the impact by counting domains not %age of overall mail.

>    With our present design, the necessary response to these errors is
>    for the domain owner to remove intermediate DMARC policies.

that's strange ... isn't the intent of the new scheme to encourage
subdomain owners to add them !

I do wonder if this is the PSL raising its ugly head again. A remarkable
number of the people who have added entries have not understood how they
now need to publish rather more DNS records than previously ...

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richard                                                   Richard Clayton

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary
Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755

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