On MARID Collapse Straight from the Source
Monday, January 31st, 2005Marshall Rose and Andy Newton, former co-chairs of MARID WG, have put up a podcast about why MARID collapsed (via GrumpsOps).
Marshall Rose and Andy Newton, former co-chairs of MARID WG, have put up a podcast about why MARID collapsed (via GrumpsOps).
2004: The Year That Promised Email Authentication
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 ...
New Sender-ID Drafts Available
Monday, November 1st, 2004Posted 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
MARID is dead
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004This 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 ...
Microsoft Publishes Patent Applications for Sender-ID
Wednesday, September 15th, 2004According 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 ...
The Rumors of Sender-ID’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Monday, September 13th, 2004While 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 ...
Death of Sender-ID and Compromise?
Wednesday, September 8th, 2004Andy Newton, co-chair of MARID, posted an interesting proposal for a compromise today to the MARID list. First of all, to no one's suprise he stated that IPR issues would block Sender-ID approval due to lack of consensus on deployment: It is the opinion of the co-chairs at this time (before ...
PRA Alone is Encumbered
Tuesday, September 7th, 2004As 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.
An inDECENT proposal
Monday, September 6th, 2004A 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 ...
MARID News
Saturday, September 4th, 2004Quite a few things happened in MARID. First, an extension of the last call was announced for Friday, September 10th. Second, the Debian Project rejected Sender-ID. Third, Earthlink is leaning against Sender-ID also (which especially suprising since the other three members of the ASTA are for it). UPDATE: After getting an ...
