Re: [dmarc-ietf] Comment on draft-ietf-dmarc-psd

[Scott Kitterman <[e-mail]>]

On September 5, 2019 8:22:27 PM UTC, Dave Crocker <[e-mail]> wrote:
>On 9/4/2019 6:28 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:
>> ence my current view that:
>> 
>> 1. The change to DMARC should be limited to permitting the query for
>the 
>> organization domain to be anywhere in the DNS tree, including a TLD. 
>> Within DMARC this would not look like 'extra' mechanism.
>> 
>> 2. The mechanism that processes that query should be cast strictly as
>a 
>> PSL enhancement, independent of DMARC.
>
>
>Trying to refine things further:
>
>
>    DMARC does not care about the PSL.
>
>    What DMARC cares about is the Organizational Domain (OD), as a 
>fallback when no DMARC record is found at the desired domain name.
>
>    That is, PSL is literally outside the scope of DMARC.
>
>    At the least, therefore, the DMARC specification should define a 
>distinct interface to the outside functionality that tells DMARC where 
>the OD is, which will return what suffix of the full domain name is the
>
>OD --  eg, getOrgDomain(full-domain) -> org-domain-suffix
>
>    The PSL-related side of that interface should be a separate 
>specification, so that changes to its behavior -- such as has been 
>happening with the introduction of ODs that are TLDs or are otherwise 
>'above' where DMARC has been guessing the OD to be -- are isolated from
>
>DMARC.
>
>    The current problems are that DMARC has embedded too much detail 
>about the PSL world, yet DMARC has no involvement in that world. The 
>current proposal embeds assumptions of PSL knowledge further, rather 
>than separating PSL knowledge out.

I don't think so.  The draft defines PSD as org - 1.  However you figure out org (currently PSL, but whatever).  If there's some place in the draft that doesn't say that, it's a mistake to fix.

I'm currently writing on my phone, so draft review isn't easy.  I'll look at it again later today and report back on details.  If you have specific suggestions on making this clearer, please let me know.

Scott K