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proposed adoption and rollout schedule

2004-03-30 17:39:54
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:39:47PM -0500, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
| 
| Yeah, forwarding and web-generated-email are the two obstacles to
| immediate global adoption of -all.
| 
| I propose that we publish a schedule to put forwarders and
| web-generated-emailers on notice that they need to implement SRS by X
| date after which more and more domains will start switching to -all.
| 
| There will be outcry, but it's worth biting the bullet and taking one
| for the team.
| 

What do people think about the following proposed schedule?  Dates are
very approximate.  We start with the biggest obstacles.

April      Educate ISPs to start transitioning users to SMTP AUTH.
May        Educate forwarders and web-generated emailers about SRS.
June       Antispam vendor "certification".  MTA "certification".
           ("certification" aims to confirm conformance to spec,
           using Wayne's excellent cross-implementation test suite.)
July       Continue ISP outreach and training re AUTH and SRS.
August     Majority of reputable ISPs should publish default "softfail"
           with "exists" to see which legit users are not using their
           servers.
September  Majority of widely-used MTAs should have SPF capability.
October    ISPs begin to switch to default "fail".
November   ISPs continue to switch to default "fail".
December   MTAs start to turn on SPF by default as shipped.

This is roughly in sync with the MARID working group proposed schedule:

March   04      Discuss identities with which MTA authorization
                should be associated

April  04       Publish one or more proposals, as I-Ds, specifying the
                required semantics used for MTA authorization.

April   04      Working Group last call on which identities will be
                used for MTA authorization

May     04      Interim Meeting to determine which semantics proposal
                to use.

May    04       Publish one or more syntax proposals, as I-Ds, to meet
                required semantics

June   04       Final selection of syntax and document review of
                selected proposal

July    04      Working group last call

Aug     04      Submit working group document on MTA Authorization
                Record in DNS to PS.

Aug     04      Enter FIN_WAIT


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