Re: [dmarc-ietf] A few old nits

[Alessandro Vesely <[e-mail]>]

On Thu 23/Jun/2022 03:50:29 +0200 Ángel wrote:
> On 2022-06-22 at 08:39 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> I agree.  How about changing "Instead, some domains will inherit their DMARC 
>> policy records from parent domains one level or more above them in the DNS 
>> hierarchy" to "Instead, domains which have a DMARC record will use that as the 
>> DMARC policy record even in cases where the Organizational Domain is a parent 
>> domains one level or more above them in the DNS hierarchy"?  There's no case 
>> where there's a policy for a domain, that's the org domain and then a higher 
>> level domain in the tree is used for policy.  I think this more correctly 
>> describes the distinction.
> 
> I don't think that Instead to be appropriate in the new phrase. Also, b
> eware of the plural: "Is a parent domains".
> 
> What about:
>     The relevant DMARC record for these purposes is not necessarily the
>     DMARC policy record found in DNS at the same level as the name label
>     for the domain in question. Domains which have a DMARC record
>     will use that as the DMARC policy, but in other cases they will
>     inherit their DMARC policy records from parent domains one level
>     or more above them in the DNS hierarchy.


It still has the confusing "policy record found at the same level"...  I'd opt 
for a plain sentence like so, for example:

     DMARC provides for looking for a policy record in the parent
     domain(s) if none is found at the same level as the name label
     for the domain in question.


Best
Ale
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