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Re: [ietf-dkim] [apps-discuss] Fwd: Request to move RFC 5617 (ADSP) to Historic

2013-09-12 10:03:29
On 9/11/13 8:18 PM, MH Michael Hammer (5304) wrote:

I think you need to look more closely. Many people realized very quickly that 
ADSP had significant flaws that made implementation extremely risky for both 
senders and mailbox providers. There were a number of private efforts to move 
email authentication forward. DMARC was only one of them. Some of those 
private efforts were premised on a pay-to-play model. DMARC was premised on 
creating an open standard that worked instead of a private club. A number of 
the participants in DMARC.org were also active participants in the ADSP 
discussions. We all learned from operational experience interacting through 
private channels. The problems with ADSP and how to move past them were 
certainly a point of discussion (in all the groups I participated in - how 
could it not be?). The initial attempts were one-on-one pairs of senders and 
receivers and it was very quickly realized that a standard way of 
communicating and reporting was needed. ADSP never had reporting on the radar 
screen and al!
 ignment with SPF wasn't a factor either.



The list of things DMARC does that ADSP doesn't in its appendix, is a trip down 
memory lane
of constraints that were placed on it by the against-it-before-they-were-for it 
set. True
SPF wasn't ever on its radar -- SPF has its own policy language, so nobody 
wanted to touch
that. And ARF was progressing at the time as it's own spec, so we weren't 
completely clueless
about its need. But instead of actually working to make a better spec at the 
time, we had an
author whose goal was to subvert it, and endless idiotic flamewars about what 
the actual name
of the draft should be as the main priorities. The really sad thing about this 
is that they pissed
away 6+ years due to the intrigue.

Mike


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