Authentication-Results Registration for Vouch by Reference Results
RFC 6212
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RFC - Proposed Standard
(April 2011; No errata)
Was draft-kucherawy-authres-vbr (individual in app area)
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
| Stream | WG state | (None) | |
| Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 6212 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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| Responsible AD | Alexey Melnikov | ||
| Send notices to | barryleiba@computer.org | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Kucherawy Request for Comments: 6212 Cloudmark, Inc. Category: Standards Track April 2011 ISSN: 2070-1721 Authentication-Results Registration for Vouch by Reference Results Abstract This memo updates the registry of properties in Authentication- Results: message header fields to allow relaying of the results of a Vouch By Reference query. Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6212. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Kucherawy Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 6212 Auth-Results VBR Registration April 2011 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................2 2. Keywords ........................................................2 3. Discussion ......................................................2 4. Definition ......................................................3 5. IANA Considerations .............................................4 6. Security Considerations .........................................5 7. References ......................................................5 7.1. Normative References .......................................5 7.2. Informative References .....................................5 Appendix A. Authentication-Results Examples .......................6 A.1. VBR Results ................................................6 Appendix B. Acknowledgements ......................................7 1. Introduction [AUTHRES] defined a new header field for electronic mail messages that presents the results of a message authentication effort in a machine-readable format. In the interim, a proposal for rudimentary domain-level reputation assessment, called Vouch By Reference, [VBR] was published and is now beginning to see popular use. This memo thus registers an additional reporting property allowing a VBR result to be relayed as an annotation in a message header. 2. Keywords The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [KEYWORDS]. 3. Discussion Vouch By Reference [VBR] introduced a mechanism by which a message receiver can query a "vouching" service to determine whether or not a trusted third party is willing to state that mail from a particular source can be considered legitimate. When this assessment is done at an inbound border mail gateway, it would be useful to relay the result of that assessment to internal mail entities such as filters or user agents. Reactions to the information contained in an Authentication-Results header field that contains VBR (or any) results are not specified here, as they are entirely a matter of local policy at the receiver. Kucherawy Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 6212 Auth-Results VBR Registration April 2011 4. Definition This memo adds to the "Email Authentication Methods" registry, created by IANA upon publication of [AUTHRES], the following: o The method "vbr"; and o Associated with that method, the properties (reporting items)Show full document text