Initiatives
The Messaging, Malware, and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group, or M3AAWG, has released a blog post and white paper calling for the creation of an industry coalition to support the Public Suffix List (PSL). The PSL is an initiative under the Mozilla Foundation, and identifies the parts of the Internet domain name space under which organizations […]
Back in October 2019, Microsoft included ARC support in their Microsoft 365 Roadmap, stating that “[ARC] is now enabled for Office 365 hosted mailboxes.” But at that time it could only be used between Office 365 tenants, or from Microsoft’s in-house services. However in June of 2022 they made it possible for each tenant to […]
The fifth JPAAWG General Meeting was held on November 7th and 8th in Nagasaki, Japan. For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, DMARC.org was able to deliver a keynote presentation in person. A strong conference program generated excellent attendance, both in-person and online, and the facilities were top notch. This year’s […]
Independent Submission M. Kucherawy, Ed. Request for Comments: 7489 Category: Informational E. Zwicky, Ed. ISSN: 2070-1721 Yahoo! March 2015 Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) Abstract Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) is a scalable mechanism by which a mail-originating organization can express domain-level policies and preferences for message validation, disposition, and reporting, […]
Network Working Group P. Resnick, Ed. Request for Comments: 5322 Qualcomm Incorporated Obsoletes: 2822 October 2008 Updates: 4021 Category: Standards Track Internet Message Format Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the […]
Network Working Group J. Klensin Request for Comments: 5321 October 2008 Obsoletes: 2821 Updates: 1123 Category: Standards Track Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the “Internet Official […]
Over the course of 2021 the number of valid DMARC policies observed in use rose by 84%, to a total of nearly 5 million unique records, compared to the prior calendar year. This doubles the percentage increase seen in 2020, and reflects an acceleration of growth in the second half of the year. Starting with […]
The fourth JPAAWG General Meeting was held on November 11-12th of 2021, using a virtual format. DMARC.org once again provided a pre-recorded presentation, this time in three parts. The three sections are: an overview of BIMI, a survey of recent IETF activity related to email, and various statistics about email authentication. This statistics section includes […]
On January 30th of 2012, fifteen organizations announced the working group they had formed, and the first version of the protocol they had produced. This was the public kickoff of both DMARC.org and the DMARC protocol. It would grow from just 450 published sending domain policies and 2 billion protected mailboxes after one year, to […]
Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) enables email senders to have a logo or image of their choosing displayed next to email messages they send to participating mailbox providers. BIMI builds on DMARC and related email authentication standards to ensure that only messages authorized by those senders display such images, so it frequently comes up […]
