On 03/13/2014 05:19 AM, J. Gomez wrote:
Please, explain why the internally-agreed-upon practices of the oligopolistic
big four mailbox providers need to be sanctioned as an Internet-wide official
standard disregarding the operational problems such an standard in its current
formulation would bring to the smaller players in the email arena.
Setting aside the difficulties with this sentence that Murray has
already identified, I wonder whether this sentence points to part of
your extraordinary enmity towards DMARC.
Your sentence attempts to portray DMARC standardisation as something
which will impose operational problems on "smaller players". Do you imagine:
* that the standardisation of DMARC will by itself somehow create
operational problems for smaller organisations which don't implement it?
* that organisations, small or not, will choose to implement it
despite the cost of implementation and operation exceeding the
benefits thereby obtained?
* that they'll somehow be compelled to implement it and therefore have
to shoulder a cost that shouldn't be theirs?
* something else?
What is it about DMARC in particular, in contrast to _*ALL*_ of the
other protocols and tools that have ever been developed, that makes you
unwilling to simply view it as a tool for you (and others) to implement
if it's helpful or to disregard if it's not? In particular, per the
wording of your sentence, is there some specific problem in your mind
with a protocol developed by a few large organisations in a closed
environment being subsequently made public, and in particular with
having done so after a decade of open development had abjectly failed to
disrupt the use of spoofing by criminals?
Your choice of words makes it sound as though you view DMARC as some
sort of obligation imposed from above. Not only does it not impose an
obligation of any kind on anyone, it hands us a solution to a problem
that we've butted heads over for a decade. Perhaps you are not inclined
to bow an scrape while expressing your gratitude (neither am I), but if
it's the large corporate origin of DMARC that's motivating your
response, then perhaps your response is simply misplaced.
- Roland
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