Re: [spfbis] Review of draft-ietf-spfbis-experiment-05

[Commerco WebMaster <[e-mail]>]

On 4/23/2012 10:13 AM, Barry Leiba wrote:
>>  I'm arguing that the current text remain.
>
> Scott is right that because what's there has rough consensus, he does
> not need to establish consensus to leave it there.
>
> That said, I think the current text ill-serves the document, so let me
> try again.  How about this, which I think does not attempt to attribute
> anything but the Experimental requirement to the old IESG:
>
> OLD
>     Due to the absence of consensus behind one or the other, and because
>     Sender-ID supported use of the same policy statement defined by SPF,
>     the IESG at the time was concerned that an implementation of
>     Sender-ID might erroneously apply that statement to a message and,
>     depending on selected recipient actions, could improperly interfere
>     with message delivery.  As a result, the IESG required the
>     publication of all of these documents as Experimental, and requested
>     that the community observe deployment and operation of the protocols
>     over a period of two years from the date of publication in order to
>     determine a reasonable path forward.
>
> NEW
>     Consensus did not clearly support one protocol over the other, and
>     there was significant concern that the two would conflict in some
>     significant operational situations, interfering with message delivery.
>     The IESG required the publication of all of these documents as
>     Experimental, and requested that the community observe deployment
>     and operation of the protocols over a period of two years from the date
>     of publication in order to determine a reasonable path forward.
>
> Does that work?  I think it says what it needs to say without trying to
> either blame anyone or get into historical details that are not
> necessary in this document.
>
> Barry
>

New looks cleaner.  Would it be possible (and does it make sense) to add 
something like -

"Measurement data gathered for both the Sender-ID and SPF experiments 
indicate SPF adoption levels in the community as the preferred protocol, 
thus offering the reasonable path forward."

- to the end of the paragraph?

Alan M.