On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 2:49 PM Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-d...@dukhovni.org>
wrote:

> > On Mar 13, 2019, at 5:13 PM, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Well, I think this field should only override the outgoing and not
> incoming policies (or be removed).
>
> To be clear, let's imagine a company (say a bank) with the following TLS
> policies (written roughly Postfix-style, but should be clear even to the
> uninitiated):
>
>         # Mandatory PKIX authenticated TLS with back office settlement
> business partner,
>         # And mutually agreed set of CAs.
>         #
>         partner.example         secure tafile=partner-cas.pem
> match=mx.partner.example
>
>         # Mandatory DANE-TLS with another business partner known to
> support DANE
>         #
>         partner2.example        dane-only
>
>         # Opportunistic DANE TLS when available with general-purpose email
>         # (In real life the global default would be specified elsewhere)
>         *                       dane
>
> I think you're saying that the company could allow its users to bypass
> the locally-policy business partner domain rules, but must refuse to
> allow users to exempt casual correspondence from DANE (or MTA-STS)
> policy when published by the destination domain.
>
> Is that right?
>

Yes.

-Ekr


> --
> --
>         Viktor.
>
>
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