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SPF Statement on Sender-ID

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

The SPF community has put up a draft statement on Sender-ID and it is not very positive.

MARID is dead

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 ...

The Rumors of Sender-ID’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Monday, September 13th, 2004

While 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 ...

The emperor’s new clothes

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004

Microsoft posted today their new license for Sender-ID protocol (which grew out of SPF/RMX/DMP/DRIP/etc. work in the ASRG). It still requires a signed license directly from MSFT for each implementer . More so, the license states excplictly on the bottom that the information on licensors may be published publically. Others ...

Sender authentication moving ahead

Friday, May 21st, 2004

A lot of things happened this week: MAAWG meeting took place, Yahoo submitted DomainKeys to the IETF and a Microsoft submitted Caller ID draft to the IETF and SPF is merging with Caller ID via an addition of an ESMTP parameter for MAIL FROM. Architechurally speaking, I liked the idea ...

The LMAP BOF: It finally took place

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004

After nearly a year that one of the original LMAP proposals (RMX) made its appearances in the ASRG, the LMAP BOF (MARID) was held today in Korea at the 59th IETF. I participated via Jabber which proved to be a little interesting, but in general it seems like the session ...

Impressions from the NIST spam workshop

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

Yesterday I attended the spam workshop at NIST in DC area. Overall, I had a wonderful time and I would like to highlight some of the more interesting things I heard.

Small ASRG update and more on Sitefinder

Friday, October 3rd, 2003

As I said on my homepage - "but do not expect frequent updates". So I finally got around to updating this blog. Well, the past week or so has been pretty busy. The ASRG had seen some pretty heavy posting volume although today it has slowed down a little. We finally ...