Saturday, December 25th, 2004
(This article was published at Circle-ID)
As the year comes to a close, it is important to reflect on what has been one of the major actions in the anti-spam arena this year: the quest for email authentication. With email often called the "killer app" of the Internet, it is important ...
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Saturday, November 6th, 2004
The SPF community has put up a draft statement on Sender-ID and it is not very positive.
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Saturday, November 6th, 2004
According to a post to the IETF's IPR list and an eWeek story, Microsoft maybe asserting IP rights over basic Internet protocols:
Has Microsoft been trying to retroactively claim IP (intellectual property) rights over many of the Internet's basic protocols? Larry J. Blunk, senior engineer for networking research and development at ...
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Monday, November 1st, 2004
Posted by Microsoft to the MARID list, will show up in the IETF's repository after the DC meeting:
draft-lyon-senderid-core-00
draft-lyon-senderid-pra-00
draft-katz-submitter-00
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
(This entry has been Slashdotted and published on Circle-ID).
With the closure of IETF's MARID group a month ago, many of us have left Microsoft's Sender-ID standard for the dead. After being rejected by the Apache Foundation and the Debian Project over licensing issues, and causing the closure of MARID for ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
Having failed to push Sender-ID through the IETF, Microsoft is trying again - through the Federal Government. William Leibzon an extract of Microsoft's comments submitted to the FTC:
The test of whether Sender ID or any other proposed solution is an open standard is not Whether it has been ratified through ...
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Monday, September 27th, 2004
FTC and NIST will be hosting an E-mail Authentication Summit on November 9th and 10th. Incidently this is the same week as IETF's 61st conference and also in Washington. More information at the FTC and GrokLaw.
Of course the main question is whether Uncle Sam will mandate a specific standard.
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
This was published on Circle-ID.
As long suspected by some, the IETF is going to be closing up the MARID WG according to today's post by Ted Hardie, co-AD for Applications. Larry Seltzer of eWeek was right on target about this:
The rest of the SID standards process will now be a ...
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Saturday, September 18th, 2004
My former co-chair as the ASRG, John Levine, published an analysis of Sender-ID?s patent application. Along with other opinions offered in the MARID WG, it seems that the patent may very well cover SPF Classis which only does MAIL FROM checking. Considering that Paul Vixie?s and David Green?s drafts predate ...
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2004
According to a recent post on the MARID list, Microsoft is publishing their patent applications for Sender-ID instead of keeping them private. The actual applications haven?t posted to the USPTO?s site but I am sure people will be watching. If the patent application is publically available, that would allow the ...
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