Re: What I've been wondering about the DMARC problem

[Miles Fidelman <[e-mail]>]

Which does bring us back to the question of how to deal with "bad 
actors" (or at least "irresponsible actors" or "uncooperative actors") 
within a cooperative governance framework.  Sigh.... Miles

Seth Johnson wrote:
> They're forcing adoption -- while folks have not been addressing this 
> piece of the inter-governmental frame.  :-)
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Miles Fidelman 
> <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>     Dave Crocker wrote:
>
>         On 4/14/2014 6:45 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>
>             I thought that standard operating procedure in the IT industry
>             was: if you roll something out and it causes serious
>             breakage to
>             some of your users, you roll it back as soon as possible.
>
>             Why hasn't Yahoo rolled back its 'reject' policy by now?
>
>
>
>         As the most-recent public statement from Yahoo, this might
>         have some tidbits in it that are relevant to your question:
>
>
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>         http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/82426971544/an-update-on-our-dmarc-policy-to-protect-our-users
>
>
>     You mean the part where they say:
>     "We know there are about 30,000 affected email sending services,
>     but we also know that the change needed to support our new DMARC
>     policy is important and not terribly  difficult to implement. We
>     have detailed the changes we are requiring here
>     <http://yahoomail.tumblr.com/post/82426900353/yahoo-dmarc-policy-change-what-should-senders-do>."
>
>     I.e., 'not our problem'
>
>     Miles Fidelman
>
>
>     -- 
>     In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
>     In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra
>
>


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