Congratulations to the chairs for your work on a contentious subject.
I think you mostly got it right.
The following is the judgment of the co-chairs relating to consensus
within the MARID working group during the last call period of
23-August-2004 through 10-September-2004.
[...]
With regard to items 3 and 4 above, it is also the opinion of the
co-chairs that any attempt by the MARID working group to define any new
scopes other than "mailfrom" and "pra" for the SPF syntax will at this
time result in failure to find consensus within the working group.
This is the troublesome part. I think everyone agrees on "mailfrom",
but not on "pra". Also, what happened to "helo"?
The document authors have agreed to producing new drafts intended to
meet the chartered work item, and a consensus call on them or the
appropriate diffs will be forthcoming. This work plan does not include
scopes outside of "mail from" and "pra", and it is our opinion that no
new work items of this type should be considered until MARID has
successfully produced a first specification.
-MARID co-chairs
Despite my nitpicking, thanks for this sign of forward progress.
-- George Mitchell