[dmarc-ietf] Kicking off DMARCbis -- tracker and process updates

[Seth Blank <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,

For us to present a standards track document to the IESG, there are many
items, some contentious and potentially time consuming, that we must
discuss and resolve. While Tim has set up a GitHub repository for work on
the I-D, we will be using the datatracker to manage that work.

The intention of the Chairs is to have an orderly discussion of all the
items, ensure all concerns are raised, tracked, and resolved, and deliver a
document that successfully makes the transition from ISE to IESG approval.

Look for a separate email from Alexey on our process for managing items in
the data tracker itself. Please refrain from adding any new items until
Alexey's email is in hand.

The datatracker now reflects items raised on the list as well as other
items brought to the Chairs directly:
https://trac.ietf.org/trac/dmarc/report/1 Please do NOT edit, close, or
comment on issues until a Chair explicitly opens discussion on the item on
list, as discussed below.

As of this evening, there are 56 open items in the tracker, they all appear
to roughly fall into the following buckets (with some examples from each):

1) nits
    - ABNF issues, preventing feedback loops, better statuses

2) updates to tags (primarily calls for removal)
    - remove sp, pct, ri, apsf, adkim, and reporting chunking

3) reporting enhancements
    - more extensible reporting, ARC reports, JSON reports, https POST
reporting, stripped down failure reports

4) clarifying prose
    - implications of failure reports, define what it means to have
"implemented" DMARC

5) general improvements
    - PSD, removing the PSL and Org Domain definition from DMARC

None of these items are themselves requirements, some may overstate their
claims, other under, and others still are mutually exclusive or depend on
the resolution state of other items. The only requirement is that every
item in the tracker must be brought to the group for discussion.

To efficiently discuss as a WG and arrive at a rough consensus on each
item, the Chairs will use the following process for DMARCbis to tear
through open tracker items:

- We will have three tickets from the datatracker open for discussion on
the list at any given time

- Each ticket will have a Chair responsible for shepherding discussion

- Once consensus is called on a ticket, that will be recorded in the
tracker, and a new ticket will be opened for discussion

- This process is separate from editing the I-D (or I-Ds), which will occur
in parallel, but will not block this process

We'll be bringing the first three items to the list later this week.

As MSK said in March, it will likely be a long road to get this work ready
for Standards Track and address all the open issues. We're looking forward
to everyone's collaboration and progressing this work together.

Seth, as Chair

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*Seth Blank* | VP, Standards and New Technologies
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