Re: [apps-discuss] Revised DMARC working group charter proposal

[Scott Kitterman <[e-mail]>]

On Friday, April 12, 2013 12:10:31 PM Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> After discussion with some IESG members and the DMARC community, a revised
> charter has now been posted for consideration:
> 
> http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/wg/appsawg/trac/wiki/DMARC
> 
> Thanks to everyone who provided constructive help in getting this reformed
> into a palatable charter.  Please feel free to offer more comments; if it
> seems non-upsetting, we'd like to ask the ADs to put it on a future
> telechat.

"The initial charter for this working group does not include revising the base 
specification"

I don't think removing the work on the base specification from the charter 
really addresses the concern that the previous draft charter over constrained 
work on the base charter.  "You have to recharter" to make a change seems very 
constraining.

At some point, if DMARC is going to be an IETF standard, dmarc.org is going to 
have to let go of change control.  I think this revision goes in the opposite 
direction.

There were a number of suggestions based on DKIM and other WG charters that 
seemed to me like a good basis for balancing the concerns of existing 
implementers with the idea of allowing an IETF working group to actually do 
work.

By removing the work from the working group entirely, I think this is the 
wrong direction to go in.

Scott K