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.
Working Group Summary
There is strong consensus for this document in the DMARC WG.
The WG set out to update 7601 with only minimal changes needed
to bring the document current with existing practice (EAI),
ongoing refinement of existing specification (DKIM), and change needed
to simplify ongoing WG development (ABNF changes).
Editorial changes are only picked up to correct errors and grammar nits.
There was some appetite to include additional editorial and content
changes, but the WG's scope required changes to be obvious and
non-controversial.
Document Quality
This is widely implemented specification and there are multiple
implementations.
Personnel
The Document Shepherd for this document is Tim Draegen.
The responsible Area Director is Alexey Melnikov.