On 4/14/2014 1:54 PM, Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote:
This might have been true if:
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2. the decision making process within a closed industry consortium with maybe less than 20 members, representing immense commercial power, could be compared to the process of consensus, that's being used within IETF.
By way of pressing a particular process issue, without commenting on any of the surrounding issues:
It's certainly true that the DMARC specification has not gone through an IETF approval process.
That said, the document has been subject to open review for quite awhile, first (and continuing) via a mailing list at dmarc.org and more recently also one hosted at the IETF. And the handling of reviews has been substantive. Again, not an IETF open process, but substantive.
Over quite a few months, there were a number of aggressive efforts to solicit community suggestions and agreement about the engineering work or document refinement work needed on the specification.
Nothing close to rough consensus developed for any technical or documentation work. Not on the dmarc.org list and not on the IETF's dmarc list.
If the community wanted changes to the specification, it had quite a bit of opportunity to call for the changes and/or call for doing such work in the IETF.
d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net