[82277] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and Cisco to submit e-mail ID spec to IETF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Mon Jul 11 10:33:59 2005
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:30:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050711.072215.27755.37129@webmail23.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> DKIM combines Yahoo's DomainKeys and Cisco's Internet
> Identified Mail, two e-mail authentication technologies
> developed separately, which the companies announced in
> June they would combine with the intention of licensing
> the resulting specification royalty-free throughout the
> industry.
"Roaylty-free" does not mean it can be used by everyone.
Microsoft also promised "royalty-free" use of SID, but it
turned out that did not extend to majority of open source
programs (with rare exception of sendmail).
So don't assume that something like courier-mta or postfix or exim
would necessarily be able to include support for DKIM spec.
> p.s. Of course, this development comes on the heels of two
> other methods for e-mail authentication already published
> by the IETF as "experimental" RFC's: "Sender Policy Framework
> (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in E-Mail" and Microsoft's
> "Sender ID: Authenticating E-Mail".
That is false information. They have not been published as "experimental"
RFCs, only approved for publication. Publication may come later and yet
may not happen at all.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@elan.net
