>- see footer for list info -< very interesting, i didn't even realise the Hotmail thing was a MS proprietary record. I'd assumed they'd be using the standard SPF that's been in the pipeline for ages.
Duncan Cumming New Media Developer Customer Relations Management / Education Fife Council 700 4105 / 01592 414105 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/06/2005 00:42 >>> >- see footer for list info -< -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wayne Sent: Saturday, 25 June 2005 8:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The IETF has accepted the SPF specification for RFC status! Sender Policy Framework (SPF) News ---------------------------------- by Wayne Schlitt, June 24, 2005 Greetings! The IETF has accepted the SPF specification for RFC status! A little over a month ago, we restarted this spf-announce mailing list with a few updates of what had happened in the last year. Since then, we have been hard at work on several things, and the first to bear fruit is the SPF specification. This SPF specification aims to clearly define the semantics of SPF, based on the older SPF specifications from late 2003 and early 2004, taking into account the state of SPF implementations and making adjustments that have been requested by the IETF. This latest SPF specification has undergone considerable review, not only by the SPF community, but also by various IETF groups. On June 6th, we submitted the completed draft for consideration by the IETF, and today, the IETF has voted to accept the SPF specification as an "Experimental" RFC[1]. The SPF specification still needs to go through the RFC Editor, and this can take weeks or even months to complete. (There are currently around 300 draft RFCs in the editor queue.) We had asked for consideration as a "Standards Track" RFC rather than "Experimental", but the IETF has informed us that they would only consider "Experimental" status[2]. This was not a big surprise, but we were surprised at some of the other actions that they took. The IETF has decided that the SPF specification can not be made into an RFC until the Sender ID specification is also ready. This appears to be in order to be 'fair' to Microsoft[3]. Moreover, the IETF has declared that the last 1.5 years of SPF deployment will not count toward the two year requirement for experimental testing that they have set. Again, this is to be 'fair' to Microsoft since their testing has barely begun. The Sender ID specifications call for the reuse of SPF version 1 records in incompatible ways in conflict with the SPF specification.[4] We have made our objections clear to the IETF, but so far, the IETF appears to be ready to bless this abuse of SPF records.[5] We will continue to work to try and make SPF as reliable as possible. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=1266 2&rfc_flag=0 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spf.council/312 [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spf.council/314 [4] http://www.schlitt.net/spf/spf_classic/draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02.html#anc hor6 [5] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spf.council/333 ---------- To unsubscribe from this list, or change the email address where you receive messages, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo -- CFDeveloper Sponsors:- >- Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< >- Forum provided by www.fusetalk.com -< >- DHTML Menus provided by www.APYCOM.com -< >- Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com -< >- CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help -< ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed and should not be disclosed to any other party. If you have received this email in error please notify your system manager and the sender of this message. This email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses but no guarantee is given that this e-mail message and any attachments are free from viruses. Fife Council Tel: +44 (0) 1592 414141 ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo -- CFDeveloper Sponsors:- >- Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< >- Forum provided by www.fusetalk.com -< >- DHTML Menus provided by www.APYCOM.com -< >- Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com -< >- CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help -<
