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

Mon Jul 11 14:41:55 UTC 2005

Okay:

"...two other methods for e-mail authentication have been
approved by the IESG for publication as "experimental" RFC's..."

Mea culpa,

- ferg

-- "william(at)elan.net" <william at elan.net> wrote:

> 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".

That is false information. They have not been published as "experimental" 
RFCs, only approved for publication. Publication may come later and yet
may not happen at all.

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
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