Re: [dmarc-ietf] [Gen-art] [Last-Call] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-dmarc-psd-08

"Kurt Andersen (b)" <kboth@drkurt.com> Sat, 23 January 2021 00:58 UTC

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From: "Kurt Andersen (b)" <kboth@drkurt.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:58:22 -0800
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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] [Gen-art] [Last-Call] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-dmarc-psd-08
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:57 PM Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:55 PM Kurt Andersen (b) <kboth@drkurt.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:06 PM Tim Wicinski <tjw.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Here's the paragraph in question
>>>
>>>      <t>To determine the organizational domain for a message under
>>> evaluation,
>>>         and thus where to look for a policy statement, DMARC makes use
>>> of a Public Suffix
>>>         List. The process for doing this can be found in Section 3.2 of
>>> the DMARC
>>>         specification.</t>
>>>
>>
>> The concern that I have with this wording is that it is (potentially)
>> misleading. "How" DMARC determines the org domain does not matter at all to
>> this spec. The important point is that we go to "org-1" in the tree for
>> this extra lookup.
>>
>
> This is just establishing context for why we're doing what the rest of the
> document says (i.e., what problem we're solving).  Leaving this out seems
> to me to paint an incomplete picture; Section 3 basically describes a
> delta, but a delta to what?
>

And if DMARC changes how it determines the org domain, where does that
leave this spec?

--Kurt