On 08/Nov/11 19:47, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>> From: ietf.org On Behalf Of Alessandro Vesely
>> 
>>>>> Alessandro sent some text for consideration so those are
>>>>> already included in
>> 
>> Wouldn't it be odd to consider that text after WGLC?
> 
> I don't understand that question.  Your comment was made before or
> during WGLC, so it's considered for the revision.  I explicitly
> included it by saying so.

Yes, but nobody commented on it.

>>> (And if one is redacting local-parts but not email addresses, I
>>> have to wonder "why"...)
>> 
>> Since it is not PII, it can be safely left in place.  (Please
>> note that "safely" addresses legal concerns, not security.)
>> Having domain names is often necessary to process messages
>> properly.  Hence, leaving them alone allows treatment even
>> without full un-redacting capabilities, which is consistent with
>> the claim that ARF messages are also human-readable.
> 
> If you're doing any redacting at all using the proposed method,
> you're already replacing some part of the message (arguably the
> most interesting part) with a string of what a user will see as
> gibberish.  I don't see how doing it twice makes it any less
> human-readable than it already is.

Since the domain of a recipient address doesn't necessarily match that
of the report sender, nor (part of) the Reporting-MTA, naive ESPs
might be unable to understand /why/ they're receiving those overly
redacted complaints.  This is especially relevant when the FBL
subscription was skipped, or didn't involve disclosing all the
affected domain names.
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