[74059] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sender-ID denied by IETF?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Mon Sep 13 11:13:48 2004
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:13:06 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Jeff Wheeler <jwheeler@usip.org>
Cc: CommuniGate Pro Discussions <CGatePro@mail.stalker.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <561AF728-0595-11D9-9934-000A95AFF5A0@usip.org>
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:58:13AM -0400,
Jeff Wheeler <jwheeler@usip.org> 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
