IETF Decides On SPF / Sender-ID issue

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 13, 2004 @02:43AM from the making-the-hard-choices dept.

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."

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Re:I love it by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-13 02:51 · Score: 0, Troll

I love it when the world has a moment of clarity and decides that Microsoft has enough damn patents and we're not going to let them run everything. Adopt the open standard that everyone can use. It makes more sense.

So despite the fact that a proprietary protocol is superior in many ways, you'd rather choose a solution like SPF that doesn't really change the amount of spam, just the way it's sent, "but at least it's open!"

Yeah. and let's send jobs overseas to help our economy.