Yahoo and Cisco to submit e-mail ID spec to IETF

Mon Jul 11 14:22:07 UTC 2005

More info:

[snip]

Yahoo and Cisco Monday plan to announce they will submit
their e-mail authentication specification, DomainKeys
Identified Mail (DKIM), to the IETF to be considered as
an industry standard.

Discussions on DKIM will begin at the IETF meeting in Paris
scheduled to run between July 31 and August 5, Yahoo and
Cisco officials said.

DKIM combines Yahoo's DomainKeys and Cisco's Internet
Identified Mail, two e-mail authentication technologies
developed separately, which the companies announced in
June they would combine with the intention of licensing
the resulting specification royalty-free throughout the
industry.

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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/071105-yahoo-cisco.html

- ferg

p.s. Of course, this development comes on the heels of two
other methods for e-mail authentication already published
by the IETF as "experimental" RFC's: "Sender Policy Framework
(SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in E-Mail" and Microsoft's
"Sender ID: Authenticating E-Mail".

http://news.com.com/Antispam+proposals+advance/2100-1032_3-5768498.html

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