On Monday, January 05, 2015 02:11:17 PM Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Jim Fenton <[email protected]> wrote:
...
> > Not mentioned anywhere: Which SPF modes are considered to be a "pass"
> > for purposes of DMARC? Presumably +, presumably not -, but it should say
> > something about ? and ~ if it doesn't already.
> 
> Not only is that another late-stage technical issue to punt to the working
> group, but I also claim that's a layering violation.  SPF simply reports a
> pass/fail/temperror/etc.  It's not the purview of DMARC to ask what kind of
> "pass" it was any more than it is the purview of DMARC to ask which header
> fields or how much body was covered by an aligned DKIM signature. Neither
> SPF nor DKIM report those things.

Right, pass is pass.  The more interesting question is what is fail.  I think 
with the recent hand wringing over temporary DNS errors we can reasonably say 
that fail is not pass or temporary DNS error.  I don't think the spec needs 
further changes in this regard.

Scott K

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