On Sep 14, 2004, at 12:12 AM, william(at)elan.net wrote:
Dont you think its more appropraite per IETF practice (and based on
opinions
expressed by the majority of participants of this WG) to say and do the
other way around, that should proceed on the non-encumbered scopes
first
and in addition may consider "encumbered" scopes if they bring enough
benefits to make it worth deploying and if there are no non-encumbered
alternatives that can achieve similar results?
As we stated before, the objection to PRA is based on questions of
deployment caused by incompatibilities with open source licenses.
There have been significant number of objections to PRA on the
technical
ground as well and most of these have not been answered. But IPR issues
caused so much more discussions that technical problems were not being
noticed. But to say that IPR issues with deployment is the only
objection
to SenderID/PRA in its correction form is simply incorrect.
However, there were also a significant number for responses from
participants stating that they had no such deployment issues.
I would point out that majority of those expressing support were large
companies who are actually "end-users" that are willing to enter dns
records for their domains. This is significantly less important then
issues of software writers that have to implement capabilities to check
these records.
It would seem that not everyone agrees with you on these points; from
a news.com article covering the very discussions going on here (you all
are aware that the press is reading these archives and reporting on
what they are reading, right?)...anyways, from a news.com article
entitled "Standards group scuttles Microsoft e-mail proposal":
"Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwall said the company would continue with
its plans
to develop its own proposal, Caller ID for E-mail. In August, Microsoft
had
feted more than 80 e-mail service providers in Redmond, Wash., as part
of the
E-mail Service Provider Consortium. Between the company's participation
in that
group and the Anti-Spam Technical Alliance, Microsoft has done a good
job of
selling major Internet infrastructure companies on the benefits of its
proposal.
Sundwall would not say whether the IETF's censure would hinder the
company's
quest to get its Caller ID proposal accepted as a de facto Internet
standard.
But he did note that many participants stayed out of the vote on
Microsoft's
involvement.
"If you look at the number of contributors that (voted), it is very
small," he
said."
Full article at http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5364075.html
Anne