Re: responding to DMARC breakage

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

William Herrin wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Miles Fidelman
> <mfidelman () meetinghouse net> wrote:
> > What kind of responses are available?  In the broader scope of things, what
> > kinds of responses are typical if someone publishes corrupted information
> > and then doesn't cooperate in fixing the situation - be that through
> > obliviousness, incompetence, lack of resources, laziness, or active intent
> > (criminal or not)?
> 1. Treat DMARC records which break mailing lists as malformed.
>
> 2. Treat messages with malformed DMARC records as a validation failure
> and act as directed for validation failures.
>
> -Bill
Doesn't really help if someone upstream is publishing the records, and 
its someone downstream who's acting on them.

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