Is Sender ID Dead in the Water? - No MARID Working Group Consensus (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

Is Sender ID Dead in the Water? - No MARID Working Group Consensus (Groklaw)

Posted Sep 9, 2004 21:22 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)
Parent article: Is Sender ID Dead in the Water? - No MARID Working Group Consensus (Groklaw)

The internet mail infrastructure is built upon open standards, as it should be, and largely upon open source. As has been pointed out, a core internet technology ought not to be encumbered with patents, nor under the control of a mischevious monopolist. As it stands, we have SPF, which is quite useful, with or without the microsoft piece.

"If Apache doesn't want to implement it, fine," Penn said. "People will just go somewhere else."

Yeah right - businesses and other institutions are going to throw a tantrum and dump their current email infrastructure, just to get the microsoft-patented flavor of SPF, instead of the currently available free and open implementation of SPF.

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Is Sender ID Dead in the Water? - No MARID Working Group Consensus (Groklaw)

Posted Sep 10, 2004 3:47 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

I look forward fervently to the day when the reverse is commonly spoken about new technologies: "If Microsoft doesn't want to implement it, fine...People will just go somewhere else."

I think it's one of Sir Billy's worst nightmares. :-)

Is Sender ID Dead in the Water? - No MARID Working Group Consensus (Groklaw)

Posted Sep 11, 2004 22:32 UTC (Sat) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

> "If Apache doesn't want to implement it, fine," Penn said.
> "People will just go somewhere else."

Dream on Penn. There's no "something else" that does differ in this particular eagerness and isn't bulky stinky sh*t.