On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 00:21, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
We used SGML for the same reason that MARID is using XML,
becuase it obtained buy-in from a key constituency that
helped deployment.
This "political aspect" and "helping deployment" seems to be a
non-issue. SPF has greater deployment (on the publishing side) than
CID. If anything, Microsoft should be hitching the CID wagon to the SPF
star, not the other way around. It appears that "the big player" in
this is SPF, because of buy-in that has already occurred, not because
SPF has money, marketing or Big Software backing it. "Big player" is
relative, and it seems that who the big players were was decided before
the SPF-CID merger -- in fact, one could argue that Microsoft wanted to
merge CID with SPF, rather than Yahoo DK or DMP or RMX or Your Dog's
Idea, because SPF _already was_ the big player. Who is really in the
drivers seat on this?
I'm not suggesting that cooperation isn't a good thing, only that SPF
didn't seem to be having problems getting accepted before merging with
CID. I suppose there was trouble from MTA authors who didn't want to
integrate SPF checking (for whatever reason), but those complaints
stopped holding water as MTAs starting supporting random policy checking
outside of the MTA code, leaving the issues that MTA authors had with
SPF to individual admins to solve by installing third-party policy
daemons.
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Andy Bakun <spf(_at_)leave-it-to-grace(_dot_)com>