Creation and Use of Email Feedback Reports: An Applicability Statement for the Abuse Reporting Format (ARF)
RFC 6650
Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(June 2012; No errata)
Updates RFC 5965
Was draft-ietf-marf-as (marf WG)
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Authors | J.D. Falk , Murray Kucherawy | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Replaces | draft-jdfalk-marf-as | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Barry Leiba | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2012-03-05) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 6650 (Proposed Standard) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Pete Resnick | ||
IESG note | Barry Leiba (barryleiba@computer.org) is the document shepherd. | ||
Send notices to | (None) |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. Falk Request for Comments: 6650 Return Path Updates: 5965 M. Kucherawy, Ed. Category: Standards Track Cloudmark ISSN: 2070-1721 June 2012 Creation and Use of Email Feedback Reports: An Applicability Statement for the Abuse Reporting Format (ARF) Abstract RFC 5965 defines an extensible, machine-readable format intended for mail operators to report feedback about received email to other parties. This applicability statement describes common methods for utilizing this format for reporting both abuse and authentication failure events. Mailbox Providers of any size, mail-sending entities, and end users can use these methods as a basis to create procedures that best suit them. Some related optional mechanisms are also discussed. 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/rfc6650. Falk & Kucherawy Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 6650 ARF AS June 2012 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2012 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. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................3 2. Definitions .....................................................4 3. Solicited and Unsolicited Reports ...............................4 4. Generating and Handling Solicited Abuse Reports .................4 4.1. General Considerations for Feedback Providers ..............4 4.2. Where to Send Reports ......................................5 4.3. What to Put in Reports .....................................5 4.4. General Considerations for Feedback Consumers ..............5 4.5. What to Expect .............................................6 4.6. What to Do with Reports ....................................6 5. Generating and Handling Unsolicited Abuse Reports ...............6 5.1. General Considerations .....................................6 5.2. When to Generate Reports ...................................7 5.3. Where to Send Reports ......................................7 5.4. What to Put in Reports .....................................8 5.5. What to Do with Reports ....................................9 6. Generating Automatic Authentication Failure Reports ............10 7. Security Considerations ........................................11 7.1. Security Considerations in Other Documents ................11 7.2. Forgeries .................................................11 7.3. Amplification Attacks .....................................11 7.4. Automatic Generation ......................................11 7.5. Reporting Multiple Incidents ..............................12 8. Acknowledgements ...............................................13 9. References .....................................................13 9.1. Normative References ......................................13 9.2. Informative References ....................................14 Falk & Kucherawy Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 6650 ARF AS June 2012 1. Introduction The Abuse Reporting Format (ARF) was initially developed for two very specific use cases. Initially, it was intended to be used for reporting feedback between large email operators, or from large email operators to end user network access operators, any of whom could be presumed to have automated abuse-handling systems. Secondarily, it is used by those same large mail operators to send those same reportsShow full document text