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Re: Yahoo and Cisco to submit e-mail ID spec to IETF

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Mon Jul 11 10:43:10 2005

From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:41:55 GMT
To: william@elan.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



Okay:

"...two other methods for e-mail authentication have been
approved by the IESG for publication as "experimental" RFC's..."

Mea culpa,

- ferg


-- "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net> wrote:

> 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.

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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