On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:23:08AM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
| As Meng Weng Wong indirectly pointed out, (a) a fair number of people do tend
| to listen when I talk, and (b) I've got a specific rep for having launched one
| fairly successful anti-spam tool.
|
| Accordingly...what can I do to speed up SPF deployment? Is the technology
| mature enough that the problems are now mainly political? Would it help to
| have my name on the RFC? Do you need some propaganda written? Would a
| fast reference implementation of some tool analogous to bogofilter be useful?
Here's the situation right now.
1) I need to finish the new version of the draft RFC.
2) I need to update Mail::SPF::Query to suit. (This is the reference
implementation.)
3) I need to update the website to suit.
- new dns.html
- new validator
Publishing records under the new scheme will be trivial.
Next Tuesday is ISPcon. I will officially announce SPF to the regular
public then. I expect a lot of interest. If at that time I can say
that you can just download a patch for Sendmail and Postfix, attendees
can go home and implement it right away. This will be absolutely crucial.
4) I will send Wietse a new policy daemon that can do the job for Postfix.
5) I need someone to update the Sendmail milter to suit the new draft.
I will try to do (1) and (2) tomorrow. That will open the door to (5).
I need someone to commit now to either update the existing Milter once (2)
is done, or write a new one in C. (I know nothing about Milters.)
We're very near the point where publicity will take on a life of its
own. If we're going to rename SPF to something like OMX (Outbound MX)
now is the time. Does anyone think the project would be materially
served by so doing?
| Having studied the issues in some depth, I'm willing to lend my name
| and effort to give SPF a boost in much the same way I did for Bayesian
| filtering late in 2001. Think about how to use that.
That is a huge vote of confidence. Thank you.
Before you put SPF on your webpage I want SPF to be fully implementable:
the spec must be finalized and the reference code stable. Let's see
where we are at the end of the week and then we can splash it.
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