J. Trent Adams
I work on #cybersecurity #standards at the intersection of online #identity, #security, & #privacy. And no, I will not stop talking about being in “#StarWars: The Force Awakens”.
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Cake day: November 7th, 2022
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Yup, we developed DMARC primarily to address domain abuse, and after a couple years of debate in the early days, had to call addressing general spam out of scope (because we wouldn’t have gotten anything done had we included that as a feature target of the spec).
As it was, it took us about 7 years to go from concept to issuance of RFC7489 (lots of history, if you’re interested - it’s quite the tale). Yeah… not easy… and that was only an Informational Draft (not a standard).
In fact, the IETF DMARC Working Group just the other day submitted an updated DMARC-bis version as an official Standards Track specification. Yay!! Sooo… that means it took since 2007 when we first started talking about it until 2025 to get it standardized. Sheesh… 18 years of work. Wild.
Now… if you’re hip to join our next venture (or just see how it unfolds - should be fun)… give DKIM2 a look. We started working on it about two years ago, and just recently re-opened the IETF DKIM Working Group to add new features, protections, and close gaps (e.g. defending against replay and more effective support of intermediaries).
Join the conversation!
https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dkim/about/
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