The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Interoperability Issues Between DMARC and Indirect Email Flows' (draft-ietf-dmarc-interoperability-18.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alexey Melnikov, Ben Campbell and Alissa Cooper. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dmarc-interoperability/ Technical Summary: DMARC introduces a mechanism for expressing domain-level policies and preferences for email message validation, disposition, and reporting. The DMARC mechanism can encounter interoperability issues when messages do not flow directly from the author's administrative domain to the final recipients. Collectively these email flows are referred to as indirect email flows. This document describes interoperability issues between DMARC and indirect email flows. Possible methods for addressing interoperability issues are presented. Working Group Summary: This document was initially posted on January 29, 2015. The WGLC began September 30, 2015, with no substantive comments being made during the last call period. Document Quality: This is an informational specification; it does not specify a standard or best practices. Personnel: Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com> is acting as the Document Shepherd. The responsible Area Director is Alexey Melnikov <aamelnikov@fastmail.fm>.
