Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large open-source lists

[Dave Cridland <[e-mail]>]

On 14 April 2014 18:26, Murray S. Kucherawy <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I mentioned in another thread that the DMARC people did come to the IETF
> to ask for a working group to complete development of the work on the
> standards track.  This request was denied on the grounds that DMARC was
> essentially already done, and thus the IETF had nothing engineering-wise to
> contribute.  There were also too few people that were not already DMARC
> proponents that would commit to working on it.
>
>
The DMARC folk came to the IETF to have a rubber stamp put on their work,
and pretty explicitly stated that no substantive changes were acceptable,
and that change control would de-facto remains with the DMARC consortium.

So nobody who wasn't already "in the club" was really invited.

Feel free to go review the quite extensive discussion almost exactly a year
ago, but it includes suggestions that the DMARC group really only wanted
the IETF to polish the document's text a bit, but that this was rejected.

So no, I dispute very heavily that the DMARC people ever came to the IETF
to "complete development of the work"; there were explicit statements at
the time that they came to have the document wordsmithed without changing
the protocol at all.

The discussion (that I read at the time; there may be more) is all in the
apps-discuss archives.

Dave.