IETF email, moderation, and TE debates

IETF lists on 2026-09-21 covered a DKIM2 sender policy draft, a posting-rights suspension last call, and feasibility questions on power-aware traffic engineering. Activity stayed technical across authentication, governance, and path computation topics.

DKIM2 sender policy draft posted

Wei Chuang posted draft-chuang-dkim2-sender-policy-01 on the ietf-dkim list, separating constraint flags from DMARC enforcement and updating alignment rules for DKIM2 forwarding. Nine participants exchanged 28 messages on the proposal. Email authentication implementers should track the revised separation of concerns and forwarding handling.

Last call on PR-Action for Ken Kubota

The IESG opened a last call under RFC 3683 for a PR-Action to suspend Ken Kubota posting rights on the tls, sshm, mod-discuss, and ietf lists over unprofessional commentary. Fifteen participants produced 26 messages on last-call.ietf.org. The outcome will set a concrete moderation precedent for IETF list conduct.

Power-aware TE feasibility disputed

The TEAS working group debated whether distributed power-aware traffic engineering path computation is feasible during the call for adoption of draft-many-teas-power-steering-01. Nine participants generated 55 messages questioning the approach. Operators watching energy-aware routing need the adoption decision and the technical objections raised.