Meng Weng Wong wrote:
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?
Although I've become accustomed to calling this project SPF when I
discuss it with my peers, I must admit, it took me a few days just to
get the acronym down, because "Sender Permitted From" is not something
that 'sounds right' in my head and was somewhat difficult for me to
remember. Re-naming it to something like OMX, RMX, etc. not only sounds
better, but also has immediate recognition by anyone that has ever used
DNS in conjunction with mail servers, because they most likely already
know what an MX record is, and how it functions. On the flip side,
you've already gained a fair amount of momentum under the SPF name,
considerable amounts of discussion in mailing lists, a Slashdot
reference, etc.. By changing the name, you unlink() yourself from all
of that and start with a somewhat clean slate in regards to people
trying to find information on the project. Whether or not to re-name
the project is entirely up to you, I just thought I'd throw in my $0.02.
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Dustin D. Trammell
Vulnerability Remediation Alchemist
Citadel Security Software, Inc.
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