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Apache Rejects Sender ID

Posted by michael on from the poison-pill dept.

hexene writes "In an open letter to the IETF MARID Working Group, the Apache Software Foundation has rejected the patent-encumbered Sender ID specification. This means no Sender ID support for SpamAssassin, Apache JAMES, etc. They state that the current license is generally incompatible with open source, and contrary to the practice of open Internet standards."

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  1. So... by njfuzzy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Will this stop the "standard" from going forward, or just increase the struggle to come to a useful consensus?

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  2. We've seen this before... by ArbitraryConstant · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "standards" that aren't acceptable to the general hacker population of the Internet aren't standards.

    Yahoo!'s DomainKeys is free and technically superior, and it's not mutually exclusive with SenderID. That means it will end up all the mail-related software except Microsoft stuff. Now who's the standard?

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  3. Re:First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How can anyone mod up a message with 6 fscking line of advertisement??? HALF the message!!!

  4. MOD HERE PLEASE by macdaddy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This point needs some extra emphasis.