Technical Summary
A number of protocols exist for establishing encrypted channels
between SMTP Mail Transfer Agents, including STARTTLS, DANE TLSA, and
MTA-STS. These protocols can fail due to misconfiguration or active
attack, leading to undelivered messages or delivery over unencrypted
or unauthenticated channels. This document describes a reporting
mechanism and format by which sending systems can share statistics
and specific information about potential failures with recipient
domains. Recipient domains can then use this information to both
detect potential attackers and diagnose unintentional
misconfigurations.
Working Group Summary
The WG consensus for adoption this draft was strong and the core of
the draft remained stable from the first version. Most discussions in the WG
were concerned with clarifications and with supporting of additional
features like automated parsing of MIME headers. The MIME encoding
of TLS report was discussed a lot with WG members changing their opinions.
The draft has passed through two WGLCs and I think that overall it has
received enough scrutiny from reviewers.
Document Quality
To document shepherd's knowledge there are no implementations
of this draft to date. However all the authors expressed a desire to
implement it and some implementations are under way.
Personnel
Valery Smyslov is the document shepherd.
Alexey Melnikov is the responsible AD.
RFC Editor Note
RFC Editor Note
[[RFC Editor: if draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf gets published as an RFC before this document,
please add the following text (as a new 6.X Section) to the IANA Considerations section.
Otherwise, please ask editors of draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf to include this entry in
draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf directly]]
Please add the following entry to the "DNS Underscore Global Scoped Entry Registry"
that will be established by draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf.
RR Type: TXT
_Node Name: _tls
References: [RFCXXXX]