Re: [dmarc-ietf] WGLC ARC-16 section 5.2.2 should be stricken

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Fri, 27 July 2018 14:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] WGLC ARC-16 section 5.2.2 should be stricken
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Kurt Andersen (b) wrote:

> This is not a matter of *whether* you reject during the SMTP interchange as
> how to do it in a meaningful way *if* you do so. The discussion about
> signaling that the domain authentication failure led to the rejection is
> the point of this section.

Ah.  I still think it should go, but if you really want to do that, invent 
a new enhanced status code.  They're cheap.  5.7.7 isn't right, it's more 
like corrupt S/MIME bodies.

R's,
John


>
> --Kurt
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 4:36 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree, this is out of place.  Whether you reject at SMTP time is a much
>> broader topic than ARC failures.
>>
>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, Seth Blank wrote:
>>
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dmarc-arc-protocol-16#section-5.2.2
>>>
>>> I am confused as to where this section comes from. It was never discussed
>>> on list, and I believe it should be stricken.
>>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/dmarc/?q=5.7.7 has no results
>>> except for Dave Crocker's document evaluations with comments on the full
>>> text.
>>>
>>> At IETF99 and on the list, there was a conversation around handling
>>> tempfails, where the consensus was that we couldn't handle them. That
>>> resulted in the "all failures are permanent" section of the document.
>>> However, other text for handling tempfails showed up, was discussed, and
>>> then removed (
>>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dmarc/DmRu-_P-ZtfSjA1k6KUe-Zk0ACY).
>>>
>>>
>> Regards,
>> John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
>> Dummies",
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