Barry Leiba wrote:
Just clearing up one point here:
Well, let's see:
...
- DMARC.org defines the "DMARC Base Specification" with a link to
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kucherawy-dmarc-base/ - an IETF
document
It is not "an IETF document". One of those would have a name that
starts with "draft-ietf-", followed by the name of the working group
it's part of. And even then, it's just a "work in progress." IETF
documents have RFC numbers. IETF work in progress has "draft-ietf-".
draft-kucherawy-dmarc-base is an individually posted Internet draft.
Anyone can post one of those (go ahead: try it). They aren't IETF
documents. That distinction is important.
In the "fine print" - but most folks don't read the fine print - which
makes it really easy for folks to take liberties in marketing and
management presentations.
It's URL includes "ietf.org," it lives on an IETF server, it's header
includes "Network Working Group." If it looks like an IETF document,
and quacks like an IETF document - that's enough for an awful lot of
people to claim that it IS an IETF document, and for an awful lot of
folks to believe it. From the point of view of most of the world - at
the level that sees IETF as "the Internet's standards body" - that
distinction is so invisible as to be meaningless.
From a legal point of view, it could be meaningless as well - in the
same way that clauses buried in shrink wrapped licenses might or might
not stand up in court. Example: "no liability for anything" clauses
don't cancel out an implied warrant of merchantability. Even as a
non-lawyer, I know that one. And again, Kleenex and Xerox and Coke
spend a lot of money defending their trademarks - apparently, they
believe that putting Kleenex(tm) on their boxes is not sufficient to
prevent others from referring to their products as "kleenex."
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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