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Microsoft Will Submit 'Caller ID' To The IETF

Posted by timothy on from the who's-calling-please dept.

An anonymous reader submits "According to a recent mailing list post by Harry Katz who is the Program Manager of Exchange at Microsoft, they plan to submit MSFT's "Caller ID" proposal to the IETF: 'I want to inform members of the MARID working group that Microsoft will shortly be submitting the Caller ID for E-mail specification to the IETF as an Informational RFC. We request that the Caller ID specification be considered an input document to the working group's deliberations.'"

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  1. As an RFC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good. I have a lot of comments; and while I'm glad they want to hear them, I think they'll regret it...

    (Oooh. Bad punning and Microsoft bashing in the same post...)

  2. Please come up with something .. by naden · · Score: 5, Funny

    As much as Microsoft can't be trusted .. i do hope many of the bigger companies/organisations do collaborate on some sort of standard.

    Because all I need to be happy in this world is to fulfil my one last dream in life.

    I won't go into it, but lets just say it involves a blowtorch, a pair of pliers and a tied up spammer.

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  3. Re:Hope it won't be as bad as Caller ID by dacarr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lucky bastard. My caller ID shows collectors as "VOIP CALL" sometimes.

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  4. If only there was something like this for phones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    This sounds pretty cool. Microsoft needs to apply this "Caller ID for E-mail" technology to telephone calls. Then when the phone rang, you could tell if it's a telemarketer or your pal Rick.

    They could call it "Caller ID for E-mail, for telephone calls".