Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance
charter-ietf-dmarc-02-00

DMARC Charter [DRAFT]

The DMARC working group was chartered in 2014 to produce a Standards
Track revision to DMARC (RFC 7489), originally published via the
Independent Submissions stream. The revision to the original document,
along with one of two reporting documents, was approved by the IESG in
2025, and the working group closed shortly thereafter.

This closure left behind a second reporting document 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 produced by the working group includes normative
references to this document, an artifact of the original DMARC RFC.
This issue needs to be resolved before the revised base document can
proceed to publication. There now appears to be consensus to recharter
in order to “un-abandon” the dangling document and complete the work.

This instance of the DMARC working group is chartered for the sole
purpose of completing the “failure reporting” document 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 document
cluster and allow the base document to proceed. The working group will
adopt no other documents or work items. However, the working group may
reclaim the base document from the RFC Editor only if it finds that
edits are required to complete this charter item, and then may alter it
only to the extent necessary to meet this goal. The responsible Area
Director will have discretion regarding whether a full Last Call and
IESG loop is needed to review those limited modifications.

The working group will submit the failure reporting document to the
IESG no later than six months from formation of the working group.
If it fails to meet this deadline or reaches consensus to cease work
on the document, it will abandon that objective and instead begin the
work of removing all references from the base document to the failure
reporting document, and the latter will be permanently abandoned.