On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 07:57:14AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Hold on though. At the moment the text says, among other things, > > Note that other groups may also distribute > working documents as Internet-Drafts. ... > > We know this doesn't prevent marketing people from telling lies > about the status of a document, but the IETF doesn't do so. Well, maybe someone like Miles should consider writing an I-D "DMARC considered harmful", which advises users impacted by Yahoo's diastrous implementation of DMARC to find another e-mail provider. Perhaps the metaphorical swatting the nose of these other groups with a newspaper will help encourage them to avoid abusing the IETF's reputation in order to market their specification. - Ted