Re: [dmarc-ietf] ABNF errors on RFC7489 and dmarcbis-07

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 23 April 2022 20:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] ABNF errors on RFC7489 and dmarcbis-07
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It appears that Damian Lukowski  <rfc@arcsin.de> said:
>> The spec could be worded better, but you are clearly mistaken.
>> Anything that starts with "v=DMARC1;" is a DMARC record.
>
>What is your definition of "mistaken" here? If the spec somewhere else states that "v=DMARC1; foo=bar=baz" is a DMARC record, then 
>the spec is internally inconsistent, because the record does not comply with section 5.4.

Please reread the paragraph from section 5.3 that I quoted in the message you just replied to.

Like I said, the spec could be clearer, and it doesn't agree very well
with actual practice which is quite forgiving of junk in DMARC records.

R's,
John