So no one in this group understands the concept of a side channel
information disclosure?

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 7:56 AM Laura Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:

> There is no ‘unwanted information disclosure’ as they are disclosing their
> own information. If they didn’t want to disclose that information, they
> wouldn’t say anything.
>
> laura
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> On 16 Nov 2022, at 12:53, Douglas Foster <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> I am suggesting less reporting, not trying to obligate more.
>
> Let's try to understand the issue this way:   Would the following Facebook
> post be wise or foolish?
>
> "My house has 4 doors, and when I leave home, 3 of them are securely
> locked.'
>
> Is there any unwanted information disclosure?
>
> Doug
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 6:23 AM Laura Atkins <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> On 16 Nov 2022, at 10:54, John R. Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2022, Douglas Foster wrote:
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>> If a server farm hosts DomainA and DomainB, and I only get DMARC aggregate
>> reports when I send to DomainA, then I can conclude that DomainB is not
>> evaluating DMARC and is therefore more vulnerable to impersonation attacks
>> than DomainA.
>>
>>
>> You can conclude whatever you want, but all you know is that they don't
>> send reports.  You don't know whether they are looking at DMARC and for
>> some "security" reason don't send them.
>>
>>
>> Seconding this. There was a major mailbox provider who host both free
>> consumer domains and a lot of corporate domains that didn’t send DMARC
>> reports. They were, in fact, evaluating DMARC, but they did not send
>> reports back. (I believe they are now, but it took a while).
>>
>> In any event, the point of IETF standards is to tell people how to
>> interoperate.  It is not our job to try to save people from themselves. If
>> someone doesn't want to use DMARC, that's up to them, not to us or to you.
>>
>>
>> I don’t think it’s a good idea to obligate organizations to send reports
>> if they choose to evaluate DMARC.
>>
>> laura
>>
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