Monday, September 13th, 2004
While several news stories are reporting that Sender-ID has been killed, that is not entirely true. While Sender-ID in its current form is dead because of PRA, the compromise version with MAILFROM and PRA scopes is not. Also, the co-chairs want to stay away from any other alternative algorithms that ...
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
As suspected before, Microsoft's Harry Katz confirmed today that Microsoft's IPR claims apply to their PRA algorithm alone. The rest of Sender-ID is unencumbered unless used in conjunction with PRA.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, July 24th, 2004
Apparently the long debate about Microsoft's license for Sender-ID has attracted the Richard M. Stallman of GNU himself. In a recent message to the MARID list he said:
Microsoft's Sender-ID license is directly incompatible with free
software regardless of which free software license is used. Free
software means users are free to ...
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Friday, May 21st, 2004
A lot of things happened this week: MAAWG meeting took place, Yahoo submitted DomainKeys to the IETF and a Microsoft submitted Caller ID draft to the IETF and SPF is merging with Caller ID via an addition of an ESMTP parameter for MAIL FROM. Architechurally speaking, I liked the idea ...
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2004
Yahoo has finally made public their DomainKeys draft which has also been submitted to the IETF.
Actually someone mentioned this was going to happen at today's MAAWG meeting but I did not expect it so soon. Hopefully MSFT will follow with Caller-ID draft submitted to the IETF. It was also mentioned ...
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Thursday, April 8th, 2004
Two interesting things happened this week with these proposals. First, the MARID WG was finally approved by the IESG. The second rather interesting thing is that Microsoft is planning on submitting their Caller ID proposal to the IETF as input to MARID.
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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 ...
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