BIMI Record Validation Errors

What Does “BIMI Record Validation Errors” Mean?

“BIMI Record validation errors” means the checker found one or more structural or semantic validation errors in the BIMI record. The BIMI draft defines exact tag-value syntax and required-field behavior. Brand Indicators for Message Identification draft 14 documents the controlling requirement or boundary.

The record cannot complete assertion processing while a validation error remains. This umbrella output is checker-specific and does not identify one universal root cause.

Why Does BIMI Record Validation Errors Appear?

BIMI Record validation errors appears when the record violates a required tag, value, order, URI, or cardinality rule that a more specific diagnostic may identify. The exact diagnostic should be read at the scope of BIMI Assertion Record rather than as proof that every BIMI layer failed.

How Do You Fix BIMI Record Validation Errors?

To fix BIMI Record validation errors, read the detailed diagnostics and correct each specific record violation without changing unrelated fields.

Clearing one child diagnostic does not prove that every record rule passes.

What Should You Verify After Fixing BIMI Record Validation Errors?

After fixing BIMI Record validation errors, rerun full record validation and confirm that no sibling diagnostic remains. Verification should use the exact public selector, URL, record, or file evaluated by the receiver.

The correction clears only this condition; it does not guarantee that a receiver will display an indicator.

Key Takeaways

• The affected object is BIMI Assertion Record.
• The direct correction is to read the detailed diagnostics and correct each specific record violation without changing unrelated fields.
• Clearing one child diagnostic does not prove that every record rule passes.