Re: [dmarc-ietf] Identification of an email author (was - Re: IETF Mailing Lists and DMARC)

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> On 11/7/2016 11:41 AM, Franck Martin wrote:
> > The EAI WG found it was fine to remove the obligation to have an email
> > address part in the mandatory RFC5322.From header, leaving only the
> > display part to assert the original author.

> We had that relaxed permission for From:, in the original
> From/Sender/Reply-to specification of rfc733, with the requirement that
> there be a Sender: email address.  It looks like we removed it for rfc822.

> And while I recall something of the EAI discussion, I'm not recalling
> this permission's being returned.  Nor am I finding it in rfc6854:

>       https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6854#section-2

> So, please point to the formal specification that permits a From: field
> to have no email address.

RFC 6854.

> Absent that, there's the small question about how the EAI group would
> have the authority to make such a major change to such a basic email
> feature...

RFC 6854 can speak for itself as to the rationale for allowing no address.

The EAI connection was, as I recall, for use in downgrade formats used to
present EAI messages to non-EAI clients via POP3 and IMAP4.

				Ned