Re: [dmarc-ietf] Errors in RFC 8601, was Question about changes introduced by erratum

[John Levine <[e-mail]>]

In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>.... [SPF] on the other hand
>has an A-R example that is domain-name only, so I assumed that
>smtp.mailfrom in spf context was more loosely defined via RFC7001's
>pvalue (that is, with the optional local-part@).

I'm pretty sure the example is wrong, and was copied verbatim from
wrong examples going back to RFC5451.

RFC8601 sec 2.7.2 refers to RFC 7208 for "mailfrom".  RFC 7208 sec 1.1.3
says that the MAIL FROM, which I whink we can assume is the same thing,
is the RFC5321.MailFrom from RFC 5598.  RFC 5598 says that's a mailbox,
not a domain name.

gain, if you look at the existing implementations, they put the
address in spf smtp.mailfrom, not just the domain name.

R's,
John

PS: I have always found it frustrating that I have to chase through a
dozen documents to find the syntax of A-R.  I understand the desire
not to try to keep two copies of definitions in sync, but as we've
seen, that doesn't always lead to the result you want.