Archive for the ‘Standards’ Category
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
After almost five years of work, the IETF finally chartered a new working group called MARF that will focusing on standardizing the Abuse Reporting Format that I first proposed back in 2005. This format is used between ISPs to facilitate automated reporting of spam activity.
The first draft as written by ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Over three years ago I wrote a small draft to define a format for reporting spam that is readable by machines as well as humans. Three years later (a few weeks ago), AOL announced that they will be switching their feedback loops to that format. I am hoping it will ...
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Friday, May 26th, 2006
A while back I wrote about the Forgent JPEG patent and how they are sending demand letters to small companies (I posted a copy here). Now comes word from GrokLaw that most of the patent has been thrown out by the Patent Office as invalid.
No word on whether any of ...
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
Wired ran an article today by Lawrence Lessing singing the praises of a new Microsoft protocol called "InfoCard". I took a quick look at the technical reference and it seems very straight forward AND is all build on a bunch of OASIS and W3C standards for web services. So far, ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
All posts in this blog will be merged with my main blog under a new category. I will try to preserve comments. You can point to my main blog feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/NetwizardsBlog or use this ...
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2005
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
One of the recurring themes in standards development is the inevitable tug of war between standards bodies and the industry. Many times, specific companies may come up with different ways to solve the same ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
About a month ago I wrote about the Forgent JPEG Patent saga. Recently a faithful reader sent me a copy of a demand letter sent on behalf of Forgent (to a company that shall ...
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Friday, May 13th, 2005
The final draft (-01) is here (HTML and TXT). Diffs are also available (HTML and TXT). As always comments are always welcome either to the mailing list or to me.
One of these days I am going to get around to writing a more complete background of this draft and the ...
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
For quite some time, Mozilla-based browsers such as FireFox, Netscape and Galeon had a feature called "pre-fetching". What this feature does is that it enabled browsers to "pre-fetch" any webpage link marked with a ...
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
Slashdot posted a story about the approval of the new OpenDocument standard by OASIS. The actual standard is available in PDF and OpenOffice formats. The obvious focus of this activity is against Microsoft and ...
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