RFC 8904: DNS Whitelist (DNSWL) Email Authentication Method Extension

This document describes an email authentication method compliant with RFC 8601. The method consists of looking up the sender's IP address in a DNS whitelist.…

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Outgoing relationships (17 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2606: Reserved Top Level DNS Names
Normative reference — RFC 5782: DNS Blacklists and Whitelists
Normative reference — RFC 8601: Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication Status
Informative reference — RFC 3629: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
Informative reference — RFC 1034: Domain names - concepts and facilities
Informative reference — RFC 4033: DNS Security Introduction and Requirements
Informative reference — RFC 6762: Multicast DNS
Informative reference — RFC 5598: Internet Mail Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 4880: OpenPGP Message Format
Informative reference — RFC 5198: Unicode Format for Network Interchange
Informative reference — RFC 6376: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures
Informative reference — RFC 6530: Overview and Framework for Internationalized Email
Informative reference — RFC 3225: Indicating Resolver Support of DNSSEC
Informative reference — RFC 7208: Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in Email, Version 1
Informative reference — RFC 7489: Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC)
Informative reference — RFC 8460: SMTP TLS Reporting
Informative reference — RFC 8482: Providing Minimal-Sized Responses to DNS Queries That Have QTYPE=ANY