Hi all, Thanks to all who participated in the discussion prompted by Barry regarding the next steps for the failure reporting document.
Barry laid out three options: 1) complete failed reporting and request AD sponsorship, 2) abandon the work and fall back to the older DMARC spec for reference, or 3) abandon the work and remove all references to failure reporting. In my review of the discussions there were many in favor of both option 1 and option 3. I would like to offer a modification to both of these options, which is to charter a very narrowly focused working group to do one or the other. That is, the working group would have a very narrow window of time to finish and send to the IESG a DMARC failure reports specification or it will change the current DMARC draft to remove references to the failure reports. Murray has helpfully put together a proposed charter for such a working group, which you may find below. Please understand that this charter must be approved by the IETF. I would appreciate responses no later than 11 April. -andy, ART AD === BEGIN PROPOSED CHARTER === DMARC Charter [DRAFT] The DMARC working group was chartered in 2014 to produce a Standards Track revision to DMARC (RFC 7489), originally published via the Independent Submissions stream. The revision to the original document, along with one of two reporting documents, was approved by the IESG in 2025, and the working group closed shortly thereafter. This closure left behind a second reporting document which, incomplete, reverted to being an individual submission. There is little evidence of uptake of this work in industry. However, it was overlooked that the base document produced by the working group includes normative references to this document, an artifact of the original DMARC RFC. This issue needs to be resolved before the revised base document can proceed to publication. There now appears to be consensus to recharter in order to “un-abandon” the dangling document and complete the work. This instance of the DMARC working group is chartered for the sole purpose of completing the “failure reporting” document and sending it to the IESG for publication as a Standards Track item, or removing failure reporting from DMARC in its entirety. This will complete the document cluster and allow the base document to proceed. The working group will adopt no other documents or work items. However, the working group may reclaim the base document from the RFC Editor only if it finds that edits are required to complete this charter item, and then may alter it only to the extent necessary to meet this goal. The responsible Area Director will have discretion regarding whether a full Last Call and IESG loop is needed to review those limited modifications. The working group will submit the failure reporting document to the IESG no later than six months from formation of the working group. If it fails to meet this deadline, it will abandon that objective and instead begin the work of removing all references from the base document to the failure reporting document, and the latter will be permanently abandoned. === END === _______________________________________________ dmarc mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
