Hi John,
At 08:34 AM 24-03-2019, John R Levine wrote:
RFC 7489 is an Informational document. It has caused issues such
as the following:
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/s_Y8Vux32Ei_0HCBiiVzb-4hhFg
Why is draft-ietf-dmarc-eaiauth-03 on the Standards Track?
Because it updates RFCs 6376 and 7208, which are draft standards.
RFC 6376 is an Internet Standard. It may make matters complicated in
future if that specification has to be revised. I'll comment about
RFC 7208 below.
I presume you meant to say "doesn't", but in fact it does. See in
particular the last paragraph of section 4.
Yes. Sorry, I missed that. The local-part is imported from RFC
5321. There was some discussion about the issue in 2012. The
"updates" does not seem EAI specific.
Because it does. See the second paragraph of section 6. The
existing 7489 language in several places that says "the domain name
must be converted to an A-label" is wrong since mail addresses don't
contain single label domains.
There are other (reported) technical issues with that RFC. I gather
that the DMARC working group is not interested in fixing that specification.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
