Re: DMARC methods in mailman (off-topic)

[Hector Santos <[e-mail]>]

On 12/22/2016 5:46 PM, S Moonesamy wrote:
> Hi Hector,
> At 13:12 22-12-2016, Hector Santos wrote:
>> Is that the new modus operandi within the IETF, that extremely weak,
>> poorly engineered Informational Docs can be fast tracked as a
>> "standard" in the IETF?
>
> The way to publish an IETF Proposed Standard or IETF Informational
> document has been the same for over a decade.  I don't think that the
> IETF has changed its way of doing that.

Well, for a while now, there has a number of efforts to fast track 
items using Informational Status submissions which has, no doubt, been 
leveraged as a means to bypass critical IETF reviews.  DMARC is most 
definitely one of them.  Lets not fool ourselves.

For all intent and purposes, DMARC has been pushed as a "standard" 
work item within the IETF working group(s).  Additional add-ons and 
higher overhead mail altering suggestions are being proposed to 
address problems it causes.  The same problem ADSP was abandoned for.

We might call it a "pseudo-standard" because of wide usage but in 
reality it is still an informational status document.  That should 
change so it can get the proper status and wider and more complete 
engineering reviews, and frankly more serious considerations. Since 
ADSP was abandoned, a large investment was lost. I have a problem of 
fully committing to a Informational Status DMARC protocol that has the 
same problems ADSP had.  Why should I further invest in it?

I support an IETF standardization effort of DMARC with a charter that 
includes development of additional options we need in order to support 
3rd party Authorization method with the expansion of policy options 
and plus relaxation of any reporting requirements.

If we had completed this work when ADSP was the proposed standard, we 
would of been done with this issue long ago or at least completed to 
the point where List systems would be in a better position to adjust 
with a simpler policy DNS lookup protocol.   Its been over 10 years 
now. Something has to give with this work already.

Thanks

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HLS