On 14 April 2014 22:42, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
- THIS IS A DRAFT DISCUSSION MEMOBig red disclaimer at the top then:
- THIS IS NOT A STANDARDS-TRACK SPECIFICATION
- THIS IS AN INDEPENDENT SUBMISSION, NOT AN IETF DOCUMENT
- SHOULD NOT BE USED AS THE BASIS FOR OPERATIONAL DEPLOYMENT OF PROTOCOL SOFTWARE
It doesn't matter. The fact that DMARC is an I-D at all is largely incidental.
If Yahoo had privately developed DMARC in a consortium under entirely different practice and operational rules than the IETF, where any participants in their mailing lists would have no clue how their contributions might be used, and without any review by the IETF as a whole, and then that consortium had published the result as an I-D, it'd be exactly the same situation as we are now.
Dave.