Thank you for your information and reference. I've modified
the page - let me know if it looks better now:
http://new.openspf.org/History/Pre-SPF
I apologize if the page before made it appear as if there is a
certain "one inventor". I in fact wrote this in part to more
clearly show that there was no single inventor and SPF was
something that many people on the net participated to bring about.
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It should be noted that history pages are still very much work in
progress and are not linked from other parts of the the website as
far as I know. I plan to work more on those pages during next week
conference and later in June.
P.S. In the plans is also to use existing website 2004 news page
http://www.openspf.org/news.html as basis for 2004 history page
though it would be a lot less media-centric focusing on history
SPF protocol developments work during MARID and related events.
As such unless others object existing news page will not be migrated
to new site in full and most media links will not be there.
On Tue, 30 May 2006, Bill Cole wrote:
Topic: The SPF website
Name: Bill Cole
Organization: Just Me
It might be reasonable to point at the discussion stemming from
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=bill-2703001110310001%40192.168.254.8
in the page at http://new.openspf.org/History/Pre-SPF to dispell the
impression that the core idea was single-sourced or that there was some
sort of squbble for primacy that meant anything...
As a matter of 'inside dirt' I know that at least 3 people (including
myself) other than Mr. Vixie who were employed by MAPS in mid-2000 each
believed themselves to have come up with the same basic concept of a DNS
record defining sending addresses independently. It was never clear to
me why Paul credited Jim Miller and not people he had recently
employed, but I'm not sure that he ever really listened to the multiple
firehoses of wild ideas that bounced around MAPS in that period. I can't
fault him for referencing the very oldest such mention he could find.
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