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Re: [spfbis] Last Call: <draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis-19.txt> (Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in Email, Version 1) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-21 12:32:36
At 04:55 21-08-2013, manning bill wrote:
regarding adoption? it would be interesting to take a second snapshot from each of these servers in about six months to see if the trend has changed (modulo PAFs observations that not all TXT == SPF). In the mean time, declare a suspension of last call to gauge if the presumption of failure of the SPF RR merits this drastic action.

The IETF chartered the SPFBIS WG to deliver:

  (i)   A document describing the SPF/Sender-ID experiment and its
        conclusions to the IESG for publication.

  (ii)  A standards track document defining SPF, based on RFC4408
        and as amended above, to the IESG for publication.

There is a message from the Responsible Area Director ( http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/spfbis/current/msg00331.html ) and the SPFBIS Chairs ( http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/spfbis/current/msg00355.html ) about (i). The SPFBIS WG was asked to make a good-faith effort and that is what the working group did.

The editor of RFC 6686 did a good job. The IESG approved the publication of the draft. The working group worked on its second deliverable (ii) after that. There wasn't any concern about the TXT RR as the matter was considered as resolved in RFC 6686. I asked DNSEXT about the SPF RRTYPE in the (IANA) DNS Parameters registry ( http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/spfbis/current/msg03412.html ). It generated long threads on several IETF mailing lists. It was unusual to have that amount of comments after the end of a WGLC.

Suspending the Last Call for six months is a drastic action. I would ask the Responsible Area Director to consider that if the SPFBIS WG did not make a good-faith effort or if there is an issue with the process that was followed. My opinion is that the SPFBIS WG made a good-faith effort. There are at least three Area Directors reading the SPFBIS mailing list. They did not flag any process-related issue.

At 07:03 21-08-2013, Jelte Jansen wrote:
Just wondering, could OARC's recent DITL data help? (perhaps if only to
see whether another large-scale targeted effort is needed)

Yes.  Someone also has to do the work.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy (as document shepherd)

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