Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-29 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 8:52 AM Alessandro Vesely wrote: > > NEW > > If the set produced by the DNS Tree Walk contains no DMARC policy record > > (i.e., any indication that there is no such record as opposed to a > > transient DNS error), then the DMARC mechanism does not apply to this > >

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-28 Thread Dotzero
I agree with Scott. We do need to be that blunt given what people have thrown out there because DMARC doesn't say it's not ok. One thing we have been firm about is that if there isn't a DMARC record it isn't DMARC. For "other things", people are free to go off and experiment with consenting

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
I do. Maybe I'm wrong and I've just read far to many crazy ideas preceded by "It doesn't actually say you CAN'T do that". I would strongly prefer we be as direct and blunt about this as possible, even though that's probably insufficient to the task in at least some cases. I know Ale liked

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-27 Thread Barry Leiba
You really think it needs to be BCP 14 key words, rather than saying in plain English that if there’s no DMARC record we are outside the realm of DMARC? Barry On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 5:15 PM Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, August 26, 2022 11:51:51 AM EDT Alessandro Vesely wrote: > > On Fri

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, August 26, 2022 11:51:51 AM EDT Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On Fri 26/Aug/2022 17:21:09 +0200 Barry Leiba wrote: > > Personally, I'm fine with the text here, but I would also be happy > > with removal of the BCP 14 key words here, like this: > > > > NEW > > If the set produced by the

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-26 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Fri 26/Aug/2022 17:21:09 +0200 Barry Leiba wrote: Personally, I'm fine with the text here, but I would also be happy with removal of the BCP 14 key words here, like this: NEW If the set produced by the DNS Tree Walk contains no DMARC policy record (i.e., any indication that there is no such

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-26 Thread Barry Leiba
I'm going to respond to some of this out of order, because I think it will help the flow. > We have these situations where the verification result is unambiguous, with > or without a DMARC policy: > - A verified identifier that has the same domain as the RFC5322.From address > is always a PASS.

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-25 Thread Douglas Foster
Yes Todd, this is the problem language: "If the set produced by the DNS Tree Walk contains no DMARC policy record (i.e., any indication that there is no such record as opposed to a transient DNS error), Mail Receivers MUST NOT apply the DMARC mechanism to the message." There are really two

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-25 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Wed 24/Aug/2022 17:11:30 +0200 Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 4:25 AM Alessandro Vesely wrote: On Wed 24/Aug/2022 07:56:41 +0200 Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: However, the charter, at paragraph 4, demands that any change made by this working group which does not preserve

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-24 Thread Todd Herr
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 2:09 PM Douglas Foster < dougfoster.emailstanda...@gmail.com> wrote: > I understand the need to limit scope, if DMARC limits its claims to what > it covers. This complaint was triggered largely with the "MUST NOT" claim > in the draft, which implied that DMARC is the

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-24 Thread Barry Leiba
> I understand the need to limit scope, if DMARC limits its claims to > what it covers. This complaint was triggered largely with the "MUST > NOT" claim in the draft, which implied that DMARC is the all-inclusive > tool for validating the RFC5322.From address using SPF and DKIM. If > it is all

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-24 Thread Douglas Foster
I understand the need to limit scope, if DMARC limits its claims to what it covers. This complaint was triggered largely with the "MUST NOT" claim in the draft, which implied that DMARC is the all-inclusive tool for validating the RFC5322.From address using SPF and DKIM. If it is all inclusive,

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-24 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 4:25 AM Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On Wed 24/Aug/2022 07:56:41 +0200 Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > > I believe your "policy is useful when present but not required" remark > is a > > re-statement of your claim that DMARC should yield a "pass" for any > aligned > >

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-24 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Wed 24/Aug/2022 07:56:41 +0200 Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: I believe your "policy is useful when present but not required" remark is a re-statement of your claim that DMARC should yield a "pass" for any aligned identifier irrespective of the presence or absence of a published policy. The

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-23 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 4:52 AM Douglas Foster < dougfoster.emailstanda...@gmail.com> wrote: > As best I understand the chair position, DMARC supports domain owners: > - via PASS, which might improve delivery rates, and more importantly > - via FAIL, by providing a way to deflect blame and

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-23 Thread Barry Leiba
>> The reason an evaluator expends compute cycles on validation is to >> meet their own needs, which are to accept messages that they want and >> block messages that they do not want. Source filtering is the most >> important part of that process. > > Sure, but in the absence of a published

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-23 Thread Todd Herr
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 7:52 AM Douglas Foster < dougfoster.emailstanda...@gmail.com> wrote: > As best I understand the chair position, DMARC supports domain owners: > - via PASS, which might improve delivery rates, and more importantly > - via FAIL, by providing a way to deflect blame and

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-23 Thread Laura Atkins
> On 23 Aug 2022, at 12:51, Douglas Foster > wrote: > > As best I understand the chair position, DMARC supports domain owners: > - via PASS, which might improve delivery rates, and more importantly This is an incorrect interpretation of what DMARC does. DMARC allows evaluators to reliably

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-23 Thread Douglas Foster
As best I understand the chair position, DMARC supports domain owners: - via PASS, which might improve delivery rates, and more importantly - via FAIL, by providing a way to deflect blame and liability when others are harmed by messages impersonating the domain's identity. This requires a DMARC

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-23 Thread Todd Herr
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 9:14 PM Douglas Foster < dougfoster.emailstanda...@gmail.com> wrote: > If an ARC chain with SPF PASS demonstrates that a list post is legitimate, > it only does so because the evaluator is testing alignment (exact match) > between the domain reported in the ARC results and

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-22 Thread Douglas Foster
If an ARC chain with SPF PASS demonstrates that a list post is legitimate, it only does so because the evaluator is testing alignment (exact match) between the domain reported in the ARC results and the domain of the FROM address on the message. This is the DMARC verification algorithm, without

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-22 Thread John R. Levine
On Mon, 22 Aug 2022, Wei Chuang wrote: I agree with the OP's premise that there needs to be a better authentication method that works with mailing lists. ... Google seems pretty enthusiastic about ARC. Since large mail systems already know where the mailing lists are, I asked why not just

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-22 Thread Wei Chuang
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 6:32 AM Barry Leiba wrote: > > Mailing lists are supposed to be a closed group. This means that posts > should only be accepted if they are verifiably > > from the subscriber indicated in the RFC5322.From address. This > requirement means that a list needs a mechanism

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-22 Thread Barry Leiba
> Mailing lists are supposed to be a closed group. This means that posts > should only be accepted if they are verifiably > from the subscriber indicated in the RFC5322.From address. This requirement > means that a list needs a mechanism > for verifying the RFC5322.From address, and the

[dmarc-ietf] Mailing List message authentication

2022-08-21 Thread Douglas Foster
Mailing lists are supposed to be a closed group. This means that posts should only be accepted if they are verifiably from the subscriber indicated in the RFC5322.From address. This requirement means that a list needs a mechanism for verifying the RFC5322.From address, and the mechanism needs