Technical Summary
This document defines an extensible format and MIME type that may be
used by network operators to report feedback about received email to
other parties. This format is intended as a machine-readable
replacement for various existing report formats currently used in
Internet email.
Working Group Summary
The majority of development of this specification took place outside
of the IETF between 2005 and 2007, resulting in a de facto standard
with many large-scale implementations. The recent work within the
MARF Working Group has resulted in a more precise document, and has
revealed some items for discussion in future documents.
Document Quality
The Working Group is aware of more than a dozen generators of reports
which follow this specification, and hundreds of consumers of those
reports. These include most of the largest mailbox providers and email
service providers, and many smaller operators. Many of the WG members
are also implementors, and many additional implementers who are not
currently WG participants have reviewed this document and/or earlier
revisions.
Personnel
J.D. Falk is the Document Shepherd.
Alexey Melnikov is the Responsible Area Director.
RFC Editor Note
In Appendix B (and subsections), please change the version number in
all "Version: 0.1" fields to be "1"