Re: [dmarc-ietf] Comment on draft-ietf-dmarc-psd

["Murray S. Kucherawy" <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 4:24 PM Craig Schwartz <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Murray,
>
> <<<The chairs will not accept hearsay replies or opinions, or expressions
> of needing this work but not knowing how to engage; you either give your
> feedback on the list or privately to the chairs or Area Directors, or you
> are along for whatever ride results.  Please indicate, as soon as possible,
> where your support lies given the above.>>>
>
> In my capacity as managing director of fTLD Registry Services (fTLD),
> registry operator of the .BANK and .INSURANCE TLDs, I believe PSD would
> provide invaluable threat intelligence to domain registrants and to TLD
> administrators like ourselves for NXDOMAINs. PSD has tremendous value to
> specialized TLDs including, but not limited to, .BRANDS, community-based
> domains, high-security domains, governments, etc. and as such I believe PSD
> should proceed. I’ve previously posted to this list expressing this view
> and while fTLD cannot participate in experimentation due to a prohibition
> by ICANN, we remain committed to supporting and seeing this work continue.
>

Craig,

Thanks for this, and for one other person that sent to the chairs privately
(it was a list non-member caught in moderation, nothing secret).

To be clear, however: I think the working group mailing list archive has
enough of a record that participants think the experiment will be useful or
even critical to the evolution of DMARC, though people are of course
welcome to affirm that support for the record.  The question being put,
however, goes to the form of the experiment and the current form of DMARC
as a protocol with respect to determining Organizational Domains, and
whether there are indeed risks to the deployed infrastructure that the
experiment could become permanent.  That's the meaty stuff that would
really help to move this along.

-MSK