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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 ...

Richard Stallman and the IETF

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 ...

Update on Designated Sender proposals

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.

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 ...