Re: Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

Hi Phillip,
At 10:04 17-05-2014, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>Yet more special pleading.

[snip]

>A legitimate argument against DMARC would be 'Here is a research study
>based on empirical evidence that shows DMARC does not help'', it might
>not be persuasive but it would be a valid argument to have. I am

Yes.

>I find the arguments that IETF should ignore the impact of DMARC
>unpersuasive. We have changed email repeatedly in response to non
>standards compliant actions taken by the spam senders. So there is a
>precedent for responding to malicious actions, why would we treat
>non-malicious actions differently?

The significant change I can think of is the MSA/MTA split.  That was 
in 1998.  There is a specification violation in response to a DMARC 
policy as implementers do have to decide whether to provide a fix or 
ignore the issue.  There are also operational issues, e.g. 
http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/guides/email/issues.cfm  Should 
the IETF ignore the impact of all this?  Frankly, I don't know.  It 
is a significant amount of work to assess how much of a problem this is.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy