On 12/6/20 7:13 AM, Dotzero wrote:


On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 8:58 AM Murray S. Kucherawy <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 5:09 AM Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        On chartering the WG in 2013, the decision was made to publish
        DMARC as
        independent submission, even though it was going to be
        discussed and reach
        consensus of a IETF WG.  AIUI, that was the original question
        of this thread.


    This isn't correct.  DMARC was not published as a product of this
    working group.  It was published through the Independent
    Submission stream, which can only produce Informational
    documents.  At the time, this was because the group advancing
    DMARC wanted to preserve the installed base and not cede change
    control to the IETF, so a working group was not an option.


Murray, your recollection isn't quite accurate. The group advancing DMARC was looking to preserve the installed base for a defined period of time due to a) almost all the implementations were custom code and b) there was a desire to see more experience in the wild as almost all of the deployments were by members of the group advancing DMARC. There was also a political element in that there were folks within IETF that felt the DMARC folks were only looking for a rubber stamp, nothing more. This resulted in part of the pushback.


What I still don't understand is what drove the decision to deviate from ADSP. From reading through DMARC, it's basically ADSP nee SSP with provisions for SPF and the new reporting feature. SPF had its own policy at the time, but adding it and the reporting could have been done in the context of an ADSP-bis. Had I been paying attention, I certainly would have supported adding both of those features because they clearly make getting to the end goal better.

Mike

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