Friday, May 25th, 2007
DomainKeys or DKIM, a standard for signing email which was proposed by Yahoo over 2 years ago, was finally approved by the IETF and published as RFC 4871. Congrats to all the people that made it possible.
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Thursday, May 4th, 2006
After over two years of work and arguments, the IETF finally published the RFCs for SPF and Sender-ID. They are as follows:
RFC 4405 - SUBMITTER SMTP extensions to be used with Sender-ID
RFC 4406 - main Sender-ID draft
RFC 4407 - PRA algorithm (which is what Microsoft was trying to patent - ...
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
Following on the heels of an IESG appeal rejection back in December, the IAB announced today that they rejected the appeal of the SPF community and upheld the original IESG decision to publish both Sender-ID and SPF documents. The particular problem was that Microsoft's Sender-ID piggied back on the SPF ...
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Friday, January 6th, 2006
After over a year of pre-WG work, the IETF finally chartered a new WG to work on DKIM (merger of Yahoo's DomainKeys and Cisco's IdenfitiedMail). John Levine has more on this.
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Andy mentions on his blog that the IETF rejected SPF community's appeals against Sender-ID. One appeal was focused on the fact the SPF records are being reused by Sender-ID in an incompatible fashion. The other appeal focused on non-standard Resent header processing. Both were rejected BUT the IESG added two ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
The RFC Editor just published my very first RFC - RFC 4180.
First draft published on February 2nd of 2005, RFC published on October 3rd, 2005 - total time from initial draft to RFC publication = 8 months of which 2 months was spent getting IESG approval (until April 5th, 2005) ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
SkyList is providing two free tools for the developers of ARF software (ARF is Abuse Reporting Format which is a specification for email abuse reports I am wrote). The specification and details on testing tools can be found on my ARF page.
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Thursday, August 25th, 2005
(This comes from John)
It seems that the SPF Community just lodged a formal appeal at the IETF against publication of Microsoft's Sender-ID specs. The issue at hand appears to be the fact that Sender-ID uses SPF records as a way to piggy back itself on the popularity of SPF records.
I ...
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Friday, June 24th, 2005
According to the records in the IETF's database (here and here), both SPF and Sender-ID anti-spam proposals were tentatively approved by the IESG (the "approval board" of the IETF) as experimental standards RFCs. It remains to be seen whether any of them will actually put a dent into spam.
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
According to a tell tale list message from Ted Hardie (the IETF's AD for Applications), the IESG which is the governing body (somewhat) of the IETF, is leaning towards approval of both Sender-ID and SPF even though Sender-ID distorts the meaning of SPF records and results may differ. Their logic ...
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