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

Hi Stephen,

We've already had this very conversation, so we're aware of the issue.  The
text we have was an attempt to re-create the same constraints DKIM had,
preferring no changes, but not completely proscribing it either.  It sounds
like we have a little more text massaging to do to make it clear that's
where were trying to go.

Thanks,
-MSK

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Stephen Farrell
<stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>wrote:

>
> FWIW, I'm concerned about this charter text:
>
> "The strong preference is for the working group to preserve existing
> software and procedures. For changes likely to affect the installed
> base, the working group will seek review and advice, beyond working
> group participants, to include other developers and operators of
> DMARC-based mechanisms. "
>
> I don't know how the not-yet-formed WG can have a preference nor
> how a formed-wg can seek advice "beyond the working group" with
> our processes.
>
> Both of those would seem like charter-show-stoppers to me (and
> fairly reek of rubber-stamping to put it pejoratively).
>
> We had to, and did, address similar issues with DKIM/DomainKeys
> so I hope that a similar approach will also work here - its
> fine for proponents of a technology to prefer no change but
> its not fine to constrain an IETF WG to rule out changes, but
> I reckon its actually not that hard to write down something
> that works, as we eventually did in the DKIM case.
>
> (I've not read the draft yet so this is just a comment on the
> charter text, not on the meat of the proposal. I do think this
> point deserves to be raised on apps-discuss given that its not
> really dmarc-specific.)
>
> Cheers,
> S.
>
> On 04/01/2013 06:25 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> > At the IETF meeting in Atlanta, Tim Draegen presented a proposal for
> DMARC,
> > which is an email authentication and reporting layer atop SPF and DKIM.
> > The externally-developed proposal is now in widespread deployment by a
> > number of large-scale providers.  The group that developed it is seeking
> to
> > bring it to the IETF for further development and broad review, and
> > development of operational guidance.
> >
> > A first draft of a charter can be found linked from
> > http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/wg/appsawg/trac/wiki.
> >
> > There is a dmarc@ietf.org list available for discussing the technical
> > contents of the work and also this draft charter.  Please follow up there
> > with any charter contents so we don't innundate this list with that
> > discussion.  To subscribe to that list:
> >
> > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc
> >
> > -MSK
> >
> >
> >
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