Re: [dmarc-ietf] Another minor contradiction in the draft specification

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Fri, 19 April 2013 04:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Another minor contradiction in the draft specification
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Scott Kitterman <sklist@kitterman.com>wrote:

> If there's no DMARC policy (none), there's nothing to override.  The
> change is
> a welcome improvement in the spec.  Under the old version it wasn't
> possible
> to publish DMARC records for testing without affecting existing processing.
>

+1.

Moreover, as was pointed out on another thread, we did decide along the way
that some of our requirements were not exactly what we needed in the end.
Maybe this is another one we should update or simply remove.

-MSK