Re: [dmarc-ietf] Additions to introduction

2021-12-05 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Sun 05/Dec/2021 04:23:45 +0100 Scott Kitterman wrote: On December 4, 2021 10:09:48 PM UTC, Seth Blank wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 1:34 PM Tim Wicinski wrote: I am Ok with adding text of this nature, and I think it's helpful in explaining to folks approaching DMARC for the first time.

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Additions to introduction

2021-12-04 Thread Scott Kitterman
On December 4, 2021 10:09:48 PM UTC, Seth Blank wrote: >On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 1:34 PM Tim Wicinski wrote: > >> >> I am Ok with adding text of this nature, and I think it's helpful in >> explaining to folks approaching >> DMARC for the first time. But I start to lose focus on reading long >>

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Additions to introduction

2021-12-04 Thread Seth Blank
On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 1:34 PM Tim Wicinski wrote: > > I am Ok with adding text of this nature, and I think it's helpful in > explaining to folks approaching > DMARC for the first time. But I start to lose focus on reading long > introductions (okay boomer). > > Maybe the Intro could get a

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Additions to introduction

2021-12-04 Thread Tim Wicinski
I am Ok with adding text of this nature, and I think it's helpful in explaining to folks approaching DMARC for the first time. But I start to lose focus on reading long introductions (okay boomer). Maybe the Intro could get a section or two to help focus it. I am glad to assist wordsmithing

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Additions to introduction

2021-12-04 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 9:55 AM John Levine wrote: > The point of a spec is to tell people how to interpoerate. I don't see > how this > contributes to that. > Lots of specifications include informative guidance or best practices advice as well as normative specification. DKIM has loads of it.

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Additions to introduction

2021-12-04 Thread John Levine
It appears that Douglas Foster said: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >I propose that a paragraph along these lines be inserted into the >introduction: > >The DMARC test is characterized by a one-tailed error distribution: > Messages which pass verification have a low probability of being false >positives of

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Additions to introduction

2021-12-04 Thread Douglas Foster
After I sent this, I wondered if I needed to add more text to explain that "manual review" means "manual review, followed by local policy changes, so that manual review will no longer be necessary on messages with the same identifiers." If a reader thinks "manual review" means "look at every

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Additions to introduction

2021-12-03 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 6:16 PM Douglas Foster < dougfoster.emailstanda...@gmail.com> wrote: > I propose that a paragraph along these lines be inserted into the > introduction: > > The DMARC test is characterized by a one-tailed error distribution: > Messages which pass verification have a low

[dmarc-ietf] Additions to introduction

2021-12-03 Thread Douglas Foster
I propose that a paragraph along these lines be inserted into the introduction: The DMARC test is characterized by a one-tailed error distribution: Messages which pass verification have a low probability of being false positives of actual impersonation. When a recipient intends to exempt a