The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication Status' (draft-ietf-appsawg-rfc7001bis-09.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Applications Area Working Group. The IESG contact person is Barry Leiba. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-rfc7001bis/ Technical Summary This document specifies a message header field called Authentication- Results for use with electronic mail messages to indicate the results of message authentication efforts. Any receiver-side software, such as mail filters or Mail User Agents (MUAs), can use this header field to relay that information in a convenient and meaningful way to users or to make sorting and filtering decisions. This document updates RFC 7001 to resolve errata regarding Authentication-Results values in the Email Authentication Parameters registry not being well specified in current references. When RFC 5451 was obsoleted by RFC 7001, not all the definitions were brought forward. Review and Consensus During 7001bis development there was a robust discussion within appsawg with six participants active during various phases of the discussion. In the course of development of 7001bis, there was a comprehensive review of the status and Specification of all the elements of the Email Authentication Parameters registry. Additional changes were captured to both make sure the entries in the registry were all adequately documented and that the contents of the registry were correct and current. The major point of complexity in this update was writing an IANA Considerations section that would result in a correct registry state (particularly references). The consensus appears to be broad on this update. There were no real points of controversy. This update is primarily intended to make the documentation match reality, so it is not expected to affect current Authentication-Results implementation. The improved documentation, both in 7001bis and in the Email Authentication Parameters Registry, should assist future implementation work. Personnel The document shepherd is Scott Kitterman. The responsible Area Director is Barry Leiba.
