DMARC has been an Informational RFC since 2015. That changed this month.
RFC 9989 replaces RFC 7489 and elevates DMARC to Standards Track, reflecting over a decade of deployment experience and near-universal adoption across the email ecosystem. The spec was also split into three separate documents:
RFC 9989 — core DMARC protocol
RFC 9990 — aggregate reporting (RUA)
RFC 9991 — failure reporting (RUF)










