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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:58:13AM -0400, Jeff Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote a message of 19 lines which said: > Top story on Slashdot: > http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/09/13/1317238.shtml?tid=172&tid=95&tid=218 Warning: this is probably non-operational content. I suggest to move the discussion in private or on the MARID Working Group mailing list. > Zocalo writes "The MARID working group at the IETF responsible for > deciding on which extensions to SMTP will be used to try and prevent > spoofing of the sender has made their decision. At issue was whether > Microsoft's patent encumbered Sender-ID would be eligable for > inclusion in an Internet standard. An initial analysis of the text > of their decision, available here with a brief analysis, would > suggest not. This is heavily simplified (the PRA algorithm was not rejected). > Unless Microsoft is going to make any dramatic concessions out of > desperation, that pretty much clears the way for Meng Wong's Classic > SPF to become the standard and hopefully make Joe-Jobs at thing of the > past." This is also either wishful thinking or pure disinformation. For those who want the facts, see: http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/msg04673.html co-chair judgment of consensus related to last call period of 23-Aug-2004 to 10-Sept-2004
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