  I review the implications of recent measurements of CP violation in D meson
decays in the context of standard model extensions. Using effective theory
methods, one can derive significant constraints on the possible non-standard
contributions from measurements of neutral D meson mixing and direct CP
violation in kaon decays. Due to an approximate universality of CP violation in
new physics scenarios which only break the SU(3)_Q flavor symmetry of the
standard model kinetic Lagrangian, such contributions are particularly
constrained by epsilon'/epsilon. Explanations of the observed effect within
several explicit well-motivated new physics frameworks are briefly discussed.
Finally, possible future experimental tests able to distinguish standard vs.
non-standard explanations of the observed CP violation in the charm sector are
mentioned.
