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Re: [secdir] [taugh.com-standards] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-dmarc-eaiauth-03

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Mon, 25 March 2019 10:59 UTC

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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 05:59:03 -0500
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Cc: Leif Johansson <leifj@sunet.se>, Tim Wicinski <tjw.ietf@gmail.com>, ben@nostrum.com, adam@nostrum.com, secdir@ietf.org, dmarc@ietf.org, Murray Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com>, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>, Kurt Andersen <kurta@drkurt.com>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] [taugh.com-standards] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-dmarc-eaiauth-03
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:57:49AM +0000, John R Levine wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Leif Johansson via Datatracker wrote:
> > The one issue I have is that the security considerations section claims
> > that the proposed changes attempts to mitigate some security issues
> > in email involving SPF, DMARC and/or DKIM but it is not obvious (at
> > least not to me) exactly what this amounts to.
> >
> > Additional text in the document to clarify this point seems like a good idea.
> 
> Maybe I should just take that out.  The only issue it mitigates is that 
> it makes DKIM and DMARC checks on EAI mail more reliable.

That seems important enough to state explicitly.

-Ben

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