Re: [dmarc-ietf] Thoughts on choosing N

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 16 April 2024 02:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Thoughts on choosing N
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It appears that Scott Kitterman  <sklist@kitterman.com> said:
>>I'm with Scott, pick a number, 5, 8, whatever, and be done with it.
>>
>Modulo we do need to explain why 8. Related, I think we also need to explain why the reporting address thing is important for DMARCbis since having an intermediate level record isn't
>currently supported by DMARC.

What do you mean by intermediate level record?  Whatever the tree walk finds is
by definition the org domain.

There are some PSL entries with one below another so it's not unprecedented.

R's,
John