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From: owner-ietf-mxcomp(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org
[mailto:owner-ietf-mxcomp(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of Ted
Hardie
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:31 AM
To: ietf-mxcomp(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Cc: andy(_at_)hxr(_dot_)us; mrose(_at_)dbc(_dot_)mtview(_dot_)ca(_dot_)us;
Scott Hollenbeck
Subject: MARID to close
Rather than spin in place, the working group chairs and Area Advisor
believe that the
best way forward is experimentation with multiple proposals and a
subsequent review of deployment experience. The working group chairs
and Area Advisor intend to ask that the editors of existing working
group drafts put forward their documents as non-working group
submissions for Experimental RFC status. Given the importance of the
world-wide email and DNS systems, it is critical that IETF-sponsored
experimental proposals likely to see broad deployment contain no
mechanisms that would have deleterious effects on the overall system.
The Area Directors intend, therefore, to request that the
experimental proposals be reviewed by a focused technology
directorate. This review group has not yet been formed but, as with
all directorates, its membership will be publicly listed at
http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/directorates.html once it has been
constituted.
Should this be construed to mean that there's still the hope and
intention to someday producing a standards-track RFC for IP-based sender
authentication? Despite the misgivings of those who think that IP-based
schemes are pointless in the face of other efforts at cryptographic
solutions, there are obviously many who think they're useful enough, and
a "real" standard would be a great thing.
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Mike Markley <Mike(_dot_)Markley(_at_)BankofAmerica(_dot_)com>
UNIX Email Admin, Electronic Communications