Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (dmarc)
| WG | Name | Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance | |
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| Acronym | dmarc | ||
| Area | Applications and Real-Time Area (art) | ||
| State | Active | ||
| Charter | charter-ietf-dmarc-03 Approved | ||
| Document dependencies | |||
| Additional resources |
DMARCbis issue tracker Wiki Zulip stream github |
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| Personnel | Chairs | Barry Leiba, Seth Blank | |
| Area Director | Andy Newton | ||
| Mailing list | Address | dmarc@ietf.org | |
| To subscribe | https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc | ||
| Archive | https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/dmarc/ | ||
| Chat | Room address | https://zulip.ietf.org/#narrow/stream/dmarc |
Charter for Working Group
DMARC Charter
The previous DMARC working group was chartered from 2014 to 2025 to produce a Standards Track revision to DMARC (RFC 7489), originally published via the Independent Submissions stream. The revision to the original document (draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-41), along with one of two reporting documents (draft-ietf-dmarc-aggregate-reporting-32), was approved by the IESG in 2025, and the working group closed shortly thereafter.
The closure of the previous DMARC working group in 2025 left behind a second reporting document (draft-ietf-dmarc-failure-reporting-13) which, incomplete, reverted to being an individual submission. There is little evidence of uptake of this work in industry. However, it was overlooked that the base document (draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-41) produced by the previous DMARC working group includes normative references to this document (draft-ietf-dmarc-failure-reporting-13), an artifact of the original DMARC RFC. This issue needs to be resolved before the revised base document can proceed to publication. Additionally, the aggregate reporting document (draft-ietf-dmarc-aggregate-reporting-32) contains an informative reference to this document.
This DMARC working group is chartered for the sole purpose of completing the failure reporting document (draft-ietf-dmarc-failure-reporting-13) and sending it to the IESG for publication as a Standards Track item, or removing failure reporting from DMARC in its entirety. This will complete the DMARC document cluster (C539) and allow the base document to proceed. This working group will adopt no other documents or work items. However, this working group may reclaim the base document (draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-41) and the aggregate reporting document (draft-ietf-dmarc-aggregate-reporting-32) from the RFC Editor only if it finds that edits are required to complete this charter item, and then may alter them only to the extent necessary to meet this goal.
This working group will submit the failure reporting document to the IESG no later than six months from working group formation. If it fails to meet this deadline or reaches consensus to cease work on the failure reporting document, it will abandon that objective and instead begin the work of removing all references from the base document and, optionally, the aggregate reporting document to the failure reporting document, and the failure reporting document will be permanently abandoned.
Milestones
| Date | Milestone | Associated documents |
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| Nov 2025 | Request IESG to publish DMARC Failure Reporting I-D as Standards Track |
draft-ietf-dmarc-failure-reporting
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