Thursday, May 4th, 2006
After over two years of work and arguments, the IETF finally published the RFCs for SPF and Sender-ID. They are as follows:
RFC 4405 - SUBMITTER SMTP extensions to be used with Sender-ID
RFC 4406 - main Sender-ID draft
RFC 4407 - PRA algorithm (which is what Microsoft was trying to patent - ...
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
Following on the heels of an IESG appeal rejection back in December, the IAB announced today that they rejected the appeal of the SPF community and upheld the original IESG decision to publish both Sender-ID and SPF documents. The particular problem was that Microsoft's Sender-ID piggied back on the SPF ...
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Andy mentions on his blog that the IETF rejected SPF community's appeals against Sender-ID. One appeal was focused on the fact the SPF records are being reused by Sender-ID in an incompatible fashion. The other appeal focused on non-standard Resent header processing. Both were rejected BUT the IESG added two ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
Long buried within my inbox was an email from the editor of TrimMail's Email Battles regarding their exclusive interview with Meng Wong, the creator of SPF. Nothing new here - he recommends crypo-solutions in the long term like PGP or DKIM.
There is also an interesting tidbit on using RSS for ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2005
(This comes from John)
It seems that the SPF Community just lodged a formal appeal at the IETF against publication of Microsoft's Sender-ID specs. The issue at hand appears to be the fact that Sender-ID uses SPF records as a way to piggy back itself on the popularity of SPF records.
I ...
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Friday, June 24th, 2005
According to the records in the IETF's database (here and here), both SPF and Sender-ID anti-spam proposals were tentatively approved by the IESG (the "approval board" of the IETF) as experimental standards RFCs. It remains to be seen whether any of them will actually put a dent into spam.
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
According to a tell tale list message from Ted Hardie (the IETF's AD for Applications), the IESG which is the governing body (somewhat) of the IETF, is leaning towards approval of both Sender-ID and SPF even though Sender-ID distorts the meaning of SPF records and results may differ. Their logic ...
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Friday, May 20th, 2005
While email authentication is no longer such hot topic as it was last year, nevertheless the two main proposals (SPF and Sender-ID) are moving slowly through the IETF process to become experimental protocols. Both just published new drafts (spf and sender-id [1], [2] and [3]). At the same time it ...
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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
(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 ...
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