The first step in my research has been to do DMARC policy lookups on the
PSL domains   About 400 of them have DMARC policies.  A super-majority
specify relaxed authentication without specifying a NP policy.   This
indicates that the policy was created before the PSD for DMARC spec.   I
conclude that these domains want to be treated as organizations, not PSOs,
and tbe stop-last Tree Walk will enable what they have been wanting.

Doug

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 1:06 AM Neil Anuskiewicz <neil=
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> > On Oct 10, 2023, at 11:57 AM, Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue 10/Oct/2023 19:16:10 +0200 Todd Herr wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 6:14 AM Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>> On Tue 10/Oct/2023 00:19:56 +0200 Douglas Foster wrote:
> >>>> Both approaches have problems.   Stop-at-last enables the walk to
> exit the current organization and stop on a private registry, for both
> alignment evaluation and for aggregate report transmission.   This is not a
> minor problem, even if it is arguably infrequent.
> >>>
> >>> The illustrative example in the draft says:
> >>>
> >>> _dmarc.a.b.c.d.e.mail.example.com
> >>> _dmarc.e.mail.example.com
> >>> _dmarc.mail.example.com
> >>> _dmarc.example.com
> >>> _dmarc.com
> >>>
> >>> That is, no stop at all.  In this respect, a psd=n at example.com
> would save a lookup.  However, it is not something that we can recommend,
> after we chose the obscure tag name. >
> >> I'm not sure I understand what you're saying...
> >> The illustrative example cited is intended to illustrate a full tree
> walk
> >> that follows the steps for a full tree walk that are spelled out in the
> >> numbered list just prior to the illustrative example.
> >
> >
> > Yup, I'm not criticizing the text (I wouldn't know how to better it).
> >
> > Just wondering how to implement it.  It is understood that programs must
> behave /as if/ they followed the letter of the spec, but don't have to
> actually do so.
>
> Would it be possible to test these scenarios with a working prototype or
> some other way to provide proof. Due to other obligations I haven’t been
> able to lurk here much but upon coming back I think the tree walk issues
> touched on today are possibly the only things standing in the way of
> dmarcbis. Though I saw there’s a nascent save our PSL movement that I read
> about. I’m not sure how serious or influential this movement is and why
> they’d feel so strongly that they’d step in with somewhat dubious play
> reviews on the 10 yard line.
>
> I’m just an observer.
>
> I’d be shocked if DMARCbis to emerge perfect and triumphant. I expect
> problems will be addressed, there’s going to be stress, but ultimately
> another hack such as the hosts file for DNS will become largely irrelevant
> in the big picture, taking the Internet another step out of childhood
> toward adulthood. That’s a good thing even if some things go wrong along
> the way that need to be fixed or mitigated. The Internet is a place where
> the perfect is often more blatantly the enemy of the good.
>
> Neil
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