On Monday, December 6, 2021 11:40:47 AM EST Todd Herr wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 9:08 AM Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On December 6, 2021 1:35:10 PM UTC, Todd Herr <todd.herr=
> > 
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> > >On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 7:45 AM Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> wrote:
> > ...
> > 
> > >>                            Should any overlooked systems be found in
> > >>                            the
> > >>     
> > >>     reports, the Domain Owner can adjust the SPF record and/or
> > >>     configure
> > >>     DKIM signing for those systems.
> > >> 
> > >> I'd s/overlooked systems/failures/, since surprises can also arise from
> > >> systems
> > >> that the Domain Owner considered to have been set up well.
> > >
> > >How about:
> > >
> > >"Should any authentication failures for systems under the Domain Owner's
> > >control be found in the reports, the Domain Owner can adjust the SPF
> > 
> > record
> > 
> > >and/or configure DKIM signing for those systems."
> > 
> > Have mercy for the poor admins whose bosses will waive this at them and
> > demand they "fix" all the issues in their failure reports.  Most cases of
> > DMARC failure are outside the control of the sending domain and this
> > doesn't seem to acknowledge that at all.  Yes, maybe the DNS group decided
> > one day to prettify their zone files by lower casing everything and now
> > everything is getting a DKIM fail, but usually it's a problem elsewhere.
> > 
> > Maybe add "caused by local misconfiguration or omission" after
> > authentication failures?
> 
> In the interests of future-proofing, should there ever be additional
> underlying authentication protocols, I propose this:
> 
> Should any authentication failures for systems
> under the Domain Owner's control be found in the reports, in cases
> where the failures are caused by local misconfiguration or omission
> the Domain Owner can take steps to address such failures.

I think that's good.

Scott K



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