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

[Tim Wicinski <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 9:19 AM Murray S. Kucherawy <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 2:31 AM Alessandro Vesely <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> >     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.
>>
>> Couldn't we skip that kind of functional intro and say something general,
>> such
>> as anticipating Section 2.2:
>>
>>      Public Suffix Domains (PSDs) are domain names publicly accessible for
>>      domain registration.  As explained in Section 2.2, they include all
>> top
>>      level domains and some more.  The way delegations occur on the global
>>      Internet makes it difficult to establish whether a domain is a PSD.
>> A
>>      community maintained Public Suffix List (PSL) exists for that
>> purpose.
>>
>> Thinking twice, perhaps we don't need to introduce the PSL until Section
>> 3.4.
>> In that case, strike the last two sentences of the above paragraph.
>>
>
> It's not obvious to me that this is better, but sure, let's discuss it.
>
>> 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 more I look at this, you need it near the top because that is where the
discussion
of the policy.  But also open to be convinced.

tim



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