Re: [dmarc-ietf] 5.5.4. Publish a DMARC Policy for the Author Domain - dmarcbis-06

[Alessandro Vesely <[e-mail]>]

On Sun 03/Apr/2022 04:49:03 +0200 John Levine wrote:
> It appears that Scott Kitterman  <[e-mail]> said:
> 
>>2.  In the policy discovery section I added a few sentences on which policy to 
>>use once the policy record is identified.  This doesn't change anything 
>>relative to what's currently defined, but it seems to me that if we are going 
>>to have a discussion of policy discovery we should take it all the way to 
>>determining the poilcy and not stop at the determination of the record to use 
>>to determine the policy.
> 
> It still gets the wrong answer for psd=n above psd=y.


Why?


> I think it needs to say you walk up. At each step if you find psd=n,
> that is the org domain and you stop.


Right, that's step 1 of 4.8.


> If you find psd=y, that is the PSD, the org is the name beneath it, and you
> stop.

Yup, unless that's the From: domain (the sending PSO case).


> (If the one beneath it has no DMARC record, is it still the org domain? I
> think it is.)

This seems to be inconsistent with the sentence that follows.  Would the 
landscape change if .com suddenly publishes psd=y?


> If you get to the top and there was no record with psd=y or psd=n, the
> org is the highest DMARC record you found.



Best
Ale
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