On Friday, May 15, 2020 2:26:32 PM EDT Seth Blank wrote: > https://trac.ietf.org/trac/dmarc/ticket/69 > > Aggregate reports are only sent in XML format. There's been some discussion > (that's also related to https://trac.ietf.org/trac/dmarc/ticket/42 about > expanding reporting functionality beyond mailto:), of adding additional > reporting formats, specifically JSON. > > Should we consider adding JSON formatting to DMARC?
When there is only one report format, there's no need to discover a common format between report senders and report receivers. As soon as there are two, then to be interoperable, then either both report formats are required or there has to be some kind of discovery mechanism, because we don't want report senders sending reports in a format the receiver can't parse. Each report format has to have a defined structure so that receivers can consistently parse them. Maintaining two report formats represents additional complexity and increased work to be done. If this were a green field effort and we were trying to decide on a report format, I would probably think JSON was a great choice, but it's not. Trying to support multiple formats is going to be a lot of work for little to no real gain. I'd suggest no. Scott K _______________________________________________ dmarc mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc
