Re: DMARC from the perspective of the listadmin of a bunch of SMALL community lists

[Miles Fidelman <[e-mail]>]

Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 15/04/2014 08:24, Dick Franks wrote:
>> On 14 April 2014 19:03, Murray S. Kucherawy <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Miles Fidelman <
>>> [e-mail]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> A more pragmatic, less expensive, and publicly visible expression of
>>>>> IETF displeasure might be to expunge all versions of the offending I-D from
>>>>> IETF document store and refuse to publish any subsequent version until the
>>>>> unwarranted claims made for it are retracted.
>>>>>
>>>>> To be effective, that needs to be done now, while the iron is still hot;
>>>>> not after the usual 3-month email debate about the diplomatic niceties.
>>>>>
>>>>>   The later, accompanied with a strong statement about the limits of
>>>> DMARC, and the flaws in its deployment - might not be a bad start.
>>>>
>>> What real-world effect is this supposed to have, apart from setting a very
>>> dangerous precedent?
>>>
>>>
>> 1)  Invalidates the inappropriate document citations on DMARC site.
>>
>> 2)  Publicly refutes any claim that this is an IETF standardisation effort.
>>
>>
>> Robust action in defence of IETF reputation is possibly a precedent worth
>> setting.
> Not at the price of looking like censorship and distorting the
> historical record.
>
> We have very carefully designed boilerplate, and the point of
> boilerplate is precisely that it's there even if people don't
> read it. We're an open voluntary standards organisation;
> we're still not the Internet Police.
>
> I'm strongly against removing drafts from the public record unless
> they are obscene or libellous.
>
>
Big red disclaimer at the top then:
- THIS IS A DRAFT DISCUSSION MEMO
- THIS IS NOT A STANDARDS-TRACK SPECIFICATION
- THIS IS AN INDEPENDENT SUBMISSION, NOT AN IETF DOCUMENT
- SHOULD NOT BE USED AS THE BASIS FOR OPERATIONAL DEPLOYMENT OF PROTOCOL 
SOFTWARE




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