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"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Tue, 12 May 2026 17:54 UTC

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On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 3:59 AM Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> wrote:

> > Basically… we just need to answer the current charter question about
> > whether or not we should mark RFC 8617 as “Historic" (along with any
> > commentary)… knowing that doesn’t kill the concept itself, as it’s
> already
> > being folded into the current DKIM2 proposals.
>
> Good practice is to move a protocol to Historic status when it has
> actually
> been superseded.
>

Maybe for a Standards Track specification.  But ARC is Experimental, and I
submit that the experiment has run its course.

Several suggestions indicate we might salvage things from ARC, but I'm not
sensing the broader community's willingness to invest.

-MSK

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