Sunday, January 16th, 2005
(This article was published by Circle-ID)
DISCLAIMER: I do not have any inside knowledge regarding this nor have I discussed this with any IETF folks. This is based purely on publically available information.
A few months ago, Ted Hardie (AD of Applications for the IETF) informed the MARID WG in the closure ...
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Saturday, December 25th, 2004
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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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Thursday, November 11th, 2004
Daniel Quinlan of ASF mentioned in a recent newsgroup posting that Sender-ID negotiations between the FOSS world and Microsoft may restart:
I also briefly met with Ryan Hamlin, the GM of Microsoft's Safety
Technology & Strategy group, and he's interested in attempting a second
try at the patent license negotiation between us (well, ...
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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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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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Thursday, October 28th, 2004
eWeek just published an opinion piece on Sender-ID written by Larry Seltzer. In general it reflects the same line of thinking that I used myself. However, I do want to take issue with something he says in the end of the article:
Personally, I'm sick and tired of the lack of ...
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
Yesterday my blog entry about Sender-ID was Slashdoted. It was interesting to survive the famous "Slashdot effect" (perhaps I should make a badge). How did I do it?
I used the PlanetLab network to link to my entry on Slashdot so it will not get overwhelmed and also changed the image ...
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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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Thursday, September 23rd, 2004
I wrote another short article on Sender-ID, this time for Groklaw. Well now that MARID is dead, I think its time to stop writing articles :)
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