Thanks for sending this out Seth. folks are free to contact the chairs and our AD if they have questions, concerns.
tim On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 12:59 PM Seth Blank <s...@valimail.com> wrote: > On 27 October 2020, in post > https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dmarc/qtCDyGbeDHz96G8FaCxJvhJKrvo/ > the chairs announced a split of RFC7489 into three documents, to be scoped > as follows: > > > - The DMARC Base Spec (editors - Emil Gustafsson, Todd Herr, and John > Levine) > - Aggregate Reporting (editor - Alex Brotman) > - Forensic Reporting (editors - Steve Jones and Alessandro Vesely) > > > The chairs are of the opinion that discussion of topics related to the > DMARC bis documents on the mailing list has reached a point where it would > be unreasonable to expect any timely progress toward completion of the > refinement of the DMARC bis at this point. > > Our charter (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dmarc/about/) is clear on > what this working group’s priority should be when reviewing and improving > the DMARC specification: “Issues based on operational experience and/or > data aggregated from multiple sources will be given priority.” > > We are spending too much time on items that are at best incidental to > DMARC, and rarely are informed by operational practice or data from > multiple sources. Efforts by the chairs to weigh in and declare discussions > unproductive work for that particular thread, but the involved parties just > move on to another thread, and consensus remains well over the horizon. > > We have therefore decided that the best approach to achieve progress for > the DMARC bis documents is to form a design team, per RFC 2418, Section > 6.5. The team will be composed of the editors, focused on their designated > documents, as defined above. The team will be charged with working through > all existing tickets and producing an updated version of each DMARC bis > document to present to the working group, at which point discussion would > resume on-list with respect to the updated documents. > > The design team will operate as follows: > > > 1. > > A moratorium is hereby imposed on creating tickets for this working > group, effective at 5pm PT, Friday, February 26th. > 2. > > The design team will have until 5pm PT, Friday, April 23rd, to work > through all applicable tickets, and come to agreement on each to either > modify DMARC bis documents (and make such modification) or reject the > ticket, with the reason for rejection added to the ticket's comments. No > tickets will be closed during this process, everything will be transparent > for working group review after the design period. > 3. > > Changes made to the DMARC bis documents will be tracked in the > following manner: > 1. > > By comments added to the ticket driving the change > 2. > > By comments in the markdown (.md) and/or XML version of the > documents > 3. > > Through an Appendix section added temporarily to the documents, so > that changes can be easily summarized for the next step in the process. > 4. > > All changes throughout the process will be publicly visible within > GitHub (https://github.com/ietf-wg-dmarc). > 4. > > At the end of the time period, in roughly sixty days (or earlier if > their work is finished before then), the design team will deliver updated > versions of the DMARC bis documents to the working group, and the working > group will have a chance to review that version and make > comments/recommending edits, etc., using > https://trac.ietf.org/trac/dmarc/report/1 to create tickets as needed. > Initial discussion will be limited to what’s in the documents. > 5. > > The design team will consult with each other and the chairs during > their work as needed. > > > The chairs spent a great deal of time discussing this, and we don’t take > this action lightly or without hesitation, but in the end we feel it’s the > best way to not only make progress on the working group's efforts, but also > to allow for working group participants to reset and perhaps gain a fresh > perspective on this important work. > > After the updated documents have been presented to the working group, we > will hold an interim to discuss them and hear all feedback. > > Seth, Tim, and Alexey, as Co-Chairs > > -- > > *Seth Blank* | VP, Standards and New Technologies > *e:* s...@valimail.com > *p:* 415.273.8818 > > ` > > This email and all data transmitted with it contains confidential and/or > proprietary information intended solely for the use of individual(s) > authorized to receive it. If you are not an intended and authorized > recipient you are hereby notified of any use, disclosure, copying or > distribution of the information included in this transmission is prohibited > and may be unlawful. Please immediately notify the sender by replying to > this email and then delete it from your system. >
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