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"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Fri, 17 July 2026 15:32 UTC

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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:31:46 -0700
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 10:40 AM Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> wrote:

> I think it's important to understand why the experiment didn't produce the
> expected results.  However, neither the I-D nor the RFC state exactly what
> results were expected.  Conveying original authentication assessments
> across
> trust boundaries, as a goal, was certainly achieved.  Fixing indirect mail
> flows certainly not.


I thought the Abstract and Introduction sections of RFC 8617 clearly
described the expected result: ARC was meant to provide information
supplemental to DKIM enough to resolve the indirect mail flow problem.

Apparently, broadly, it didn't.

-MSK

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