Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC policy overrides

Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com> Tue, 02 July 2013 19:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC policy overrides
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My own view is that we should not call this anything as formal as 
'policy overrides'.

What it is is simply leaving the DMARC spec.  Let me repeat:  If someone 
does something differently than the DMARC says they need to do, they are 
no longer performing DMARC.

Anyone can do that whenever they want.  The results will be outside the 
spec, too.

DMARC dictates some behaviors.  Participants choose to... participate. 
They can choose not to.

If they choose to participate only partially, they risk unknown results 
including non-interoperability.  That's their choice.

d/