Google
 

An inDECENT proposal

Monday, September 6th, 2004

A very INTERESTING proposal has come up in MARID. John Levine, my old ASRG co-chair proposed the use of fetchmail's algorithm for Sender-ID instead of Microsoft's PRA to go around IPR issues. Being that it is Labor Day, it remains to be seen what the reaction would be. Adding to ...

Sender-ID – A Tale of Open Standards and Corporate Greed? – Part II

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

Copyright ? 2004 Yakov Shafranovich (asrg@shaftek.org). This article is under a different copyright than the rest of this blog. This article was originally published at CircleID. Part II While everything seemed fine and various participants in these discussions were celebrating the merger of these proposals into one, as well as the support ...

Sender-ID – A Tale of Open Standards and Corporate Greed? – Part I

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

Copyright ? 2004 Yakov Shafranovich (asrg@shaftek.org). This article is under a different copyright than the rest of this blog. This article was originally published in CircleID. Part I A long long time ago when the Internet was still young and most people were still using clunky Apples, PCs and mainframes; two documents ...

How old is “Caller-ID”?

Thursday, August 26th, 2004

Going over Microsoft's FAQ on their new Sender-ID license, I noticed the following statement: The original CallerID patent application was filed long before Microsoft made a decision to contribute its CallerID specification to the IETF The original Caller ID specification was submitted to the IETF sometime around the Spring of 2004, after ...

The emperor’s new clothes

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004

Microsoft posted today their new license for Sender-ID protocol (which grew out of SPF/RMX/DMP/DRIP/etc. work in the ASRG). It still requires a signed license directly from MSFT for each implementer . More so, the license states excplictly on the bottom that the information on licensors may be published publically. Others ...

Future of this Blog

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

Until I have resigned from the ASRG, this served as a place for me to comment on various issues in the spam world and the technology world at large. Now that I am less involved in these, the focus of this blog will probably shift to more personal and less ...

Moving on…

Friday, May 21st, 2004

I am moving on with life - my graduation from Johns Hopkins finally took place and I stepped down as a co-chair of the ASRG. Its been a wild ride and life goes on.

On my way to MAAWG

Tuesday, May 18th, 2004

On my way to MAAWG Just got on the train to go to the MAAWG conference in DC. Ah, the weirdness of meeting people in person that you have known for months by email...

Draft charter for MARID WG published

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004

Finally - LMAP is moving closer to be a WG at the IETF with the publication of a draft charter. Interesting tidbits include a request for the ASRG to publish all of the drafts as experimental RFCs including all of the proposals (which will make some of the authors pretty ...

The LMAP BOF: It finally took place

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004

After nearly a year that one of the original LMAP proposals (RMX) made its appearances in the ASRG, the LMAP BOF (MARID) was held today in Korea at the 59th IETF. I participated via Jabber which proved to be a little interesting, but in general it seems like the session ...