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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. Obligatory note... by FooAtWFU · · Score: 1, Informative

    Obligatory notes: a) What about SPF? b) The name sucks! c) Licensing issues exist.

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    1. Re:Obligatory note... by .@. · · Score: 2, Informative

      a) SPF is being considered by the same working group. Rather, the means of authenticating senders via DNS that both SPF and Caller-ID propose are being considered by the same working group. Caller-ID, however, is more focused on RFC2822 headers, whereas the working group is learning towards RFC2821 headers in its initial product.

      b) "Caller-ID" is copyrighted, and will almost certainly not be used as a final name.

      c) True. However, the working group will not be choosing one approach from whole cloth. Rather, it will be producing a DNS-based means of sender authentication, which other working groups will then build upon to produce a full-fledged mechanism, which may or may not be an existing mechanism, a combination of several, or something new.

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  2. What is an Informational RFC by MerlynEmrys67 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Well honestly the bar is pretty low.

    No blatant typos and grammer can't completely suck
    Can't break the internet
    Must show adherance to RFC 2026

    Yup - that is about it, so they get an informational RFC out of it. Who cares if no one in the world implements it. I would be worried if they were getting a standards track RFC that implies that people actually had to agree that it was the right thing to do.

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  3. Re:Man, what a hack.... by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 2, Informative
    Hey, dumbass, certificates cost money. Lots of money.

    Verisign Class 1 Digital ID: $14.95 per year. I'm sure with some shopping around you can find a better deal.

    Or there's the "web of trust" model.

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