Change the status of ADSP (RFC 5617) to Historic
status-change-adsp-rfc5617-to-historic-00

The following approval message was sent
From: The IESG
To: IETF-Announce
Cc: RFC Editor , dcrocker@bbiw.net, appsawg-chairs@tools.ietf.org
Subject: Protocol Action: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Author Domain Signing Practices (ADSP) to Historic

The IESG has approved changing the status of the following document:
- DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Author Domain Signing Practices
(ADSP)
  (rfc5617) to Historic

This protocol action is documented at:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/status-change-adsp-rfc5617-to-historic/

A URL of the affected document is:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5617/

Status Change Details:

ADSP has garnered almost no deployment and use in the 4 years since its
advancement to IETF Proposed Standard.  While there are implementations
in code, there is very little deployment and no evidence of the benefits
that were expected when the standard was written.

There is, however, evidence of harm caused by incorrect configuration and
by inappropriate use.  There have, for example, been real cases where a
high-value domain published an ADSP record of "discardable", but allowed
users on their domain to subscribe to mailing lists.  When posts from
those users were sent to other domains that checked ADSP, those
subscriber domains rejected the messages, resulting in forced
unsubscribes from mailman (due to bounces) for the unsuspecting
subscribers.

Assurances that are provided by ADSP are generally obtained out of band
in the real Internet, and not through ADSP.  Current deployment of ADSP
is not recommended.

Personnel

  Barry Leiba is the responsible Area Director.

[Ballot comment]
As Barry pointed out on the IETF list, there's been a good deal of "input" on the IETF list regarding this status change, so the IESG should be aware of that and see if any of the conversation concerns us. At this point, I am satisfied with Barry's call of the consensus, hence my YES. But folks should be aware of the discussion.

The following Last Call announcement was sent out:

From: The IESG
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Subject: REVISED Last Call: Change the status of ADSP (RFC 5617) to Historic


The IESG has received a request from an individual participant to make
the following status changes:

- RFC5617 from Proposed Standard to Historic

The supporting document for this request can be found here:

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/status-change-adsp-rfc5617-to-historic/

The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
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The affected document can be obtained via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5617/

IESG discussion of this request can be tracked via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/status-change-adsp-rfc5617-to-historic/ballot/

The following Last Call announcement was sent out:

From: The IESG
To: IETF-Announce
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Sender:
Subject: Last Call: Change the status of ADSP (RFC 5617) to Internet Standard


The IESG has received a request from an individual participant to make
the following status changes:

- RFC5617 from Proposed Standard to Historic

The supporting document for this request can be found here:

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/status-change-adsp-rfc5617-to-historic/

The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2013-10-30. Exceptionally, comments may be
sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the
beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting.

The affected document can be obtained via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5617/

IESG discussion of this request can be tracked via
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/status-change-adsp-rfc5617-to-historic/ballot/