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Re: [dmarc-ietf] Signaling MLMs

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 15 April 2023 16:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Signaling MLMs
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It appears that Scott Kitterman  <sklist@kitterman.com> said:
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>On April 15, 2023 12:26:16 PM UTC, Laura Atkins <laura@wordtothewise.com> wrote:
>>On Apr 15, 2023, at 4:25 AM, Scott Kitterman <sklist@kitterman.com> wrote:
>>It seems to me that there is zero harm in actively documenting the problems with DMARC and making interoperability
>recommendations about who should and should not be publishing restrictive policies. 
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>I agree on documenting the issues with DMARC and making recommendations to improve interoperability.  There are issues and
>they're significant, but we shouldn't catastrophize them either.

Right. I don't find arguments persuuasive that we should ignore DMARC
damage because it has other advanrages. Of course it has other
advantages, none of which make the damage any less real.

Document the reality and move on.  If some people don't like the reality, well, OK.

R's,
John

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