RE: MARID to close

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Hardie
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:31 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; 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.

-- 
Mike Markley <[email protected]> 
UNIX Email Admin, Electronic Communications