Re: [apps-discuss] Updating the status of SPF

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

> A participant in another WG has expressed interest in republishing SPF
> (RFC4408) on the standards track.  This clearly and historically falls into
> the APPS realm.  The work is probably in need of a WG home, and with YAM
> leaning toward spinning down, this is the next best place to ask.  I have
> some doubts it would be accepted as sponsored individual submission nor is
> it appropriate for the ISE, but I could be wrong.

It absolutely can not be done in the Independent Stream -- that stream
can't do Standards Tack documents.

> I doubt this warrants its own working group, but I could be wrong about that
> too.  So far as I’m aware the only changes needed from that document are the
> creation of an extensions registry, some minor editorial stuff, and some
> kind of resolution of the IESG Statement that was added to it to address the
> collision with Sender ID (RFC4406/7).

I believe this absolutely needs its own WG, and the proponents should
work on a draft charter.  The charter should be clear that it's aiming
to move SPF to Standards Track, that it is specifically NOT addressing
Sender-ID, and that any merging of Sender-ID into SPF is out of scope.
 The charter should have explanatory text about the experiment having
been done, the results being clear, and deployment being widespread.
The WG wants, it should say, to document the experimental results and
shift SPF onto Standards Track.

Hatless Barry