Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 () dcrocker net>]

>  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  reassurance that the as-yet-unpublished patent apps were benign, that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.

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