Receivers Guidance for Implementing Branded Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI)
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Network Working Group A. Brotman
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February 6, 2019
Receivers Guidance for Implementing Branded Indicators for Message
Identification (BIMI)
draft-brotman-ietf-bimi-guidance-00
Abstract
This document is meant to assist receivers or other mailbox providers
by providing guidance to implementing Brand Indicators for Message
Identification (BIMI). This document is a companion to the main BIMI
drafts which should first be consulted and reviewed.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Goals for BIMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Should your site implement BIMI? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1. If your site satisfies the requirements, this is likely a
"yes". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Site implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Validation of a BIMI message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5.1. BIMI Site Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.2. BIMI Certificate Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Communicating BIMI results between the MTA and the MUA . . . 6
6.1. Image Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.2. TTL of cached images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.3. Privacy Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.4. Basic flow example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7. Domain Reputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.1. Rolling up based upon domain vs organizational domain . . 9
8. Working with MVAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.1. Resolving disputes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9. Troubleshooting BIMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
10. Public documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10.1. For Brands: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10.2. For users: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
11. Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
11.1. Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
12. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
13. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
14. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1. Introduction
The Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) specification
introduces a method by which Mail User Agent (MUA, e.g, an email
client) providers combine DMARC-based message authentication in
addition to cryptographic methods to ensure the identity of a sender,
and then to retrieve iconography that the sender has selected. The
iconography can then be displayed within the MUA. The displayed
iconography grants the sender brand impressions via the BIMI-capable
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