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

[John Levine <[e-mail]>]

In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>Hello DMARC working group,
>
>I am going through the changes between RFC7601 and RFC8601 and try to
>understand the implication of the change introduced by erratum 5435.
>The new resinfo definition uses 1*propspec, that is, by my understanding
>of [1] and [2], potentially multiple consecutive propspecs without
>obvious delimiters. ...

It says:

resinfo = [CFWS] ";" methodspec [ CFWS reasonspec ]
            [ CFWS 1*propspec ]

I think both the erratum and RFC 8601 are wrong, and it should say:

resinfo = [CFWS] ";" methodspec [ CFWS reasonspec ]
            1*( CFWS propspec )

Every implementation I know puts space between multiple propspec's
which the current syntax wouldn't allow

>The spf method defines smtp.helo and smtp.mailfrom. RFC8601, RFC7601 and
>RFC7001 have only examples of the form smtp.mailfrom=domain-name.
>However, RFC7208 shows a local-part@domain-name form in [3], so I must
>assume a parser for an RFC8601 resinfo needs to recognize both forms. So
>consider

That's a mistake in the examples in Appendix B.  The example at the
bottom of page 21 is correct -- the value for smtp.mailfrom is a
mailbox, not a domain name.

R's,
John