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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Wednesday, September 8th, 2004
Pamela Jones of GrokLaw posted two stories on Sender-ID tonight: one on the current controversy and a second on the compromise/apparent death of Sender-ID. I got some quotes in both!
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2004
Andy 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 ...
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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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Monday, September 6th, 2004
A 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 ...
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Saturday, September 4th, 2004
Quite 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 ...
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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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