> In part the problem was 'legal' (versus technical)...the folks involved > in the working list from MS...technical people, offered ongoing > reassurance that the as-yet-unpublished patent apps were benign, that
Folks, For all the reasons already cited in this thread, it's clear that legal concerns were a factor. However the reality is that the IETF working group was not converging on consensus and showed no ability to repair this fatal barrier. The legal issues were part of this, but it is far from obvious that fixing the legal issues would have gotten a better outcome. Besides the criticisms of the basic path registration (somewhat akin to registering source routes) schemes used by SPF and Sender-ID, those two different specs have different constituencies and were not overly successful as merging. d/ --- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net
