Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC ATPS Interop Note

2015-05-10 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, May 10, 2015 01:33:48 AM Anne Bennett wrote: Hmm, Hector, I think you've forced me to convince myself that you're on the right track: I think that the registration problem is a red herring after all. There's no deterministic way to decide what's a legitimate mailing list (or other

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC ATPS Interop Note

2015-05-10 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Anne Bennett a...@encs.concordia.ca wrote: Hmm, Hector, I think you've forced me to convince myself that you're on the right track: I think that the registration problem is a red herring after all. There's no deterministic way to decide what's a legitimate

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC ATPS Interop Note

2015-05-10 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Anne Bennett a...@encs.concordia.ca wrote: Hmm, Hector, I think you've forced me to convince myself that you're on the right track: I think that the registration problem is a red herring after all. There's no deterministic way to decide what's a legitimate

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC ATPS Interop Note

2015-05-10 Thread Terry Zink
I suppose the tl;dr version of my last reply is: The registration problem is not a red herring because it doesn't exist, but because it is intractable.  Thus, any response to the third-party problem that relies on a solution to that problem (which includes ATPS, DSAP, and TPA) is

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC ATPS Interop Note

2015-05-10 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Anne Bennett a...@encs.concordia.ca wrote: But I think that some of the re-signing schemes being proposed at the moment do *not* require this type of registration, so in those cases, the registration problem wouldn't apply. If A is not signing B's mail, but

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC ATPS Interop Note

2015-05-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Murray S. Kucherawy writes: That means any actor inside A can sign mail that claims to come from B. So if A is compromised, B is hosed. The Bs of the world tend not to be so thrilled with this. I think only Hector and Douglas would argue with you, and I predict they will. Let's agree to

Re: [dmarc-ietf] double signing and what DMARC actually does

2015-05-10 Thread John Levine
Remember the key axiom of mail reputation: you cannot say good things about yourself, only neutral or bad things. ... This is an interesting observation when compared to DKIM and SPF, where you only actually know something about the message when they report a pass. But that's authentication,

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC ATPS Interop Note

2015-05-10 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: This How do we populate the set? is the registration problem. There are some implicit safely and at scale adverbs in there too, just for flavor. Sure, but even with the adverbs it's not a problem for

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC ATPS Interop Note

2015-05-10 Thread Scott Kitterman
On May 10, 2015 11:55:22 AM EDT, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Scott Kitterman writes: Yahoo, for example, already consider the impact of this and other breakage to be less than the benefit of p=reject. True, but the benefit of p=reject is huge: Yahoo! claims malicious

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC ATPS Interop Note

2015-05-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Anne Bennett writes: But if I understand correctly, it's being suggested that for various proposals made here to work, either the sender's mail system or the final receiver's mail system would have to become aware of all All has been asserted. Why it needs to be all has not been

Re: [dmarc-ietf] double signing and what DMARC actually does

2015-05-10 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 9:53 AM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: Under at least one of the proposals, it can be determined that yes, A signed the mods, and if the mods are removed to re-generate the original message, B signed the original message. If we have that, then I think the

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC ATPS Interop Note

2015-05-10 Thread Hector Santos
On 5/9/2015 3:01 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On May 9, 2015 1:13:15 PM EDT, Hector Santos hsan...@isdg.net wrote: Your bar is too unrealistically high for typical IETF project work that is still in the experimental stages. You should be thankful, we didn't apply this bar to the SPF experiment.

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC ATPS Interop Note

2015-05-10 Thread Hector Santos
On 5/10/2015 2:14 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Anne Bennett a...@encs.concordia.ca mailto:a...@encs.concordia.ca wrote: Hmm, Hector, I think you've forced me to convince myself that you're on the right track: I think that the registration problem is a

Re: [dmarc-ietf] A Modest Proposal of Two Variations

2015-05-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Michael Jack Assels writes: A domain SHOULD NOT publish a p=reject policy if it will emit mail intended to be mediated with modifications by another domain unless the mediating domain is exempted from the policy by [fill in the eventually approved mechanism(s)]. That won't

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC ATPS Interop Note

2015-05-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Scott Kitterman writes: Yahoo, for example, already consider the impact of this and other breakage to be less than the benefit of p=reject. True, but the benefit of p=reject is huge: Yahoo! claims malicious mailflows of more than a million messages per minute disappeared like magic when they

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC ATPS Interop Note

2015-05-10 Thread Hector Santos
The registration problem is not a red herring because it doesn't exist, but because it is intractable. Thus, any response to the third-party problem that relies on a solution to that problem (which includes ATPS, DSAP, and TPA) is probably not viable. I agree. But I think that some of the