DRAFT charter

[Ted Hardie <hardie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Below is a DRAFT charter; I believe it reflects the consensus of the meeting,
has a reasonable description of the aim of the group, and reflects a 
strong project
management focus, designed to help us meet the timeline we need to
make this work relevant.  The two proposed Chairs, Marshall Rose and
Andy Newton, are both experienced and I believe they will work well
together..

This draft is on the IESG agenda for this week, for internal review; comments
to the list, Chairs, me, or IESG are all appropriate.  I hope, however, that we
can focus on the big picture here, as spending too much time on the 
charter will
seriously hurt our ability to get this work done.

			regards,
				Ted Hardie


MTA Authorization Records in DNS (MARID)

Chairs:

Marshall Rose <mrose+mtr.mxcomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Andrew Newton <andy@xxxxxx>

Applications Area Directors:

Ted Hardie <hardie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Scott Hollenbeck <sah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applications Area Advisor:

Ted Hardie <hardie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Mailing Lists:

General Discussion:  ietf-mxcomp@xxxxxxx
To Subscribe:	ietf-mxcomp-request@xxxxxxx
In Body:	Subscribe
Archive: http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/index.html

Description of Working Group:

It would useful for Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) to be able to
confirm  that peer  MTAs are authorized to send mail on behalf of a
specific domain or network.  This working group  will develop a DNS-based
mechanism for storing and distributing information associated with that
authorization.  While the primary current use case for this facility is to
combat a certain class of domain  forgery in spam, the solution chosen
should be generally usable for MTA authorization.

This working group is being chartered after extensive discussion of
the issues in the IRTF's Anti-spam Research Group, and it is presumed
that all active  participants will be familiar with the documents produced
there which describe the problem.  This working group is not, however, an
extension of that research group; it has no general writ to study spam or to
produce specifications on the topic.  It will not consider anti-spam abatement
measures outside of  the area of MTA authorization.

An individual message may be associated with multiple identities
(specifically the domains present in the RFC2822 From, RFC2822 Sender,
the SMTP Mail-From, and the SMTP EHLO), the first task of the working group
will be to establish which of  these identities should be
associated with MTA authorization.  Once this decision has been
reached, it will limit the scope of further activity in this working group,
and the chairs will  rule out of order discussion related to schemes which
use other identities as the basis of authorization.

Upon chartering of this working group, the IESG intends to request
that the IRTF Chair and the Chairs of the IRTF's Anti-Spam Research Group
seek publication of the  listed input documents as experimental RFCs,
so that they are available on an archival basis; the IESG also
intends to request that the RFC editor insert a note into each document
informing the reader that the IETF's  MARID working group
has taken on the task of producing a standard in this area.


Working Group Goals and Milestones:

March	04  	 Discuss identities with which MTA authorization
		should be associated

April  04		Publish one or more proposals, as I-Ds, specifying the
		required semantics used for MTA authorization.
   
April	04	Working Group last call on which identities will be
		used for MTA authorization

May	04	Interim Meeting to determine which semantics proposal
		to use.

May    04		Publish one or more syntax proposals, as I-Ds, to meet
               	required semantics

June   04		Final selection of syntax and document review of
		selected proposal

July	04	Working group last call

Aug     04		Submit working group document on MTA Authorization
		Record in DNS to PS.

Aug	04	Enter FIN_WAIT

   
Input documents:

draft-irtf-asrg-lmap-discussion
draft-stumpf-dns-mtamark
draft-brand-drip
draft-danisch-dns-rr-smtp
draft-fecyk-dmp
draft-mengwong-spf
draft-levine-fsv