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

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Sun, 24 January 2021 00:49 UTC

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From: "Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 16:48:55 -0800
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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] [Gen-art] [Last-Call] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-dmarc-psd-08
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 3:29 AM Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> wrote:

> On Sat 23/Jan/2021 01:55:05 +0100 Kurt Andersen (b) wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:06 PM Tim Wicinski <tjw.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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 concern that I have with this wording is that it is (potentially)
> > misleading. "How" DMARC determines the org domain does not matter at all
> to
> > this spec. The important point is that we go to "org-1" in the tree for
> > this extra lookup.
>
> +1.  If we don't assume that readers already know what the PSL is, trying
> to
> establish that context in the Introduction is only a complication.  Later
> on,
> when Section 3 explains technicalities, the PSL has full citizenship.
>

In the interest of getting this done finally, could you or Kurt please
propose specific changes, maybe in OLD/NEW form, that you think fixes the
problem?

-MSK