> On May 10, 2018, at 10:41 AM, Warren Kumari <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [ Edit: Could the format of the _mta-sts to be something like:
> "_mta-sts.example.com.  TXT "v=STSv2; id=20180114T070707; label=foo"  ?
> 
> This would mean that the policy can be fetched from foo.example.com - the
> record *could* specify "label=mta-sts" if it wanted - this allows this to work
> without "reserving" a DNS label.  ]

Absent DNSSEC (which is the sad reason that MTA-STS exists at all) the TXT
record is untrusted data, and so should likely not be able to redirect the
policy source to an arbitrary host in the domain.  I think that rather weakens
the security model...

-- 
        Viktor.

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