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FTC Wants Comments on Email Authentication
An anonymous reader writes "Groklaw has the scoop. The Federal Trade Commission and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will co-host a two-day 'summit' November 9-10 to explore the development and deployment of technology that could reduce spam. The E-mail Authentication Summit will focus on challenges in the development, testing, evaluation, and deployment of domain-level authentication systems. The FTC will be accepting public comments until Sept. 30, 2004 via snail-mail or email (authenticationsummit at ftc.gov). The FTC has a list of 30 questions they would like answers/comments to. The list available in this PDF of the Federal Register Notice." In a related subject, reader Fortunato_NC submits this writeup of the sequence of events that led to Sender-ID's abandonment. -
IETF Decides On SPF / Sender-ID issue
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. 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." -
Interview With XFce Lead Developer
Anonymous Howard writes: "There's an interesting interview with Olivier Fourdan, the main developer of the XFce lightweight desktop environment up at moongroup.com. Fourdan discusses the recently added new features of the desktop, as well as future plans." XFce is a really slick environment, too -- not quite minimalist, but nearly fat-free. -
Interview With XFce Lead Developer
Anonymous Howard writes: "There's an interesting interview with Olivier Fourdan, the main developer of the XFce lightweight desktop environment up at moongroup.com. Fourdan discusses the recently added new features of the desktop, as well as future plans." XFce is a really slick environment, too -- not quite minimalist, but nearly fat-free.