On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 3:02 PM Tero Kivinen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Richard Clayton writes:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > >It says:
> > >
> > >      ... A Mail Receiver MUST implement
> > >      support for a "mailto:"; URI, i.e., the ability to send a DMARC
> > >      report via electronic mail.
> > >
> > >both for rua and ruf tags, so I think that is supposed to mean that
> > >mailto urls are mandatory to implement for sending reports.
> >
> > so it does ... that's clearly not nuanced enough. It needs to say
> > something like a "Mail Receiver participating in DMARC MUST ..."
> >
> > can the editors please fix that.
>
> Why? This document is documenting DMARC, everybody who implement this
> is participating in DMARC, so we do not need to add those extra words.
>
> If you are not participating in DMARC, do not implement or read this
> specification. If you do want to implement DMARC, you do all the MUSTs
> listed in this specification and there is no need to say that "if you
> implement this RFC, you MUST do x".
>

<SNIP>

If a person isn't participating/implementing DMARC (yet), how are they
supposed to determine whether they want to implement it if they accept your
demand that they not read the specification? This seems a bit extreme to
demand that people not read a public document.

Michael Hammer.
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