If every domain name holder paid $1 for SPF, and the adoption rate
continues at the current pace, you might get your $100k. But speaking more
realistically, how many people are on this list? Can everyone afford to
cough up $20? That's a start and not likely to be of great impact to
anyone. As for grants, Earthlink and AOL have adopted SPF. Any chance of
them providing some funds? Sender-ID seems enevitable, so I can't see why
these companies with fairly large coughers couldn't throw down $5k-$10k at
a minimum. The spam problem costs them at least that much on a monthly if
not weekly basis.
As for putting things in the hands of Microsoft, I don't think anyone is
comfortable with that. I haven't thoroughly read the Sender-ID docs, but I
have a suspicion that most of what is needed came from SPF, not Caller-ID.
Gates is proudly milking this in the media like he's the Godfather of the
anti-spam movement. I've seen Ming mentioned only in a few places, but
it was nice to see a mere mortal's name on the same line as Mr. Bill.
If this should be put in any corporation's hands, it should be a not for
profit funded by (but not owned by) companies like Microsoft. This will
prove their dediation to giving back to the community instead of licensing
it...
My $.02. On the $20 thing, if anyone else is willing to participate, let
me know where to send the check...
Regards,
Chris
Chris Miller
NetGate Internet
An iStrata Company
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
Folks, I'd like to take a moment to talk about money.
A lot of individuals have put a lot of their own time and
money into doing this work for the good of the public and of
the email industry. We have gotten the ball rolling and
enjoy significant momentum.
Unfortunately, unless we find a source of funding for this
work, some of us may not be able to continue in an active
role. In one possible future, it would be wise to turn
leadership of the project over to a company which has the
resources to see it through.
Microsoft is committed to solving the spam problem, and can
dedicate significant resources toward implementation and
deployment. I am comfortable with the SenderID concept and
think it is sufficient to help solve the problem long-term.
If government and businesses in the email ecosystem are
comfortable with Microsoft assuming a leadership role in the
antispam standards space, and if people agree that the
problem is well on its way to being solved, then there is no
need for funding.
If the open community decide that the work we are doing,
some of which is experimental in nature and goes beyond
SenderID, is worth continuing, then we should try to find
funding for it.
I would like to see about $100,000 in funding by the end
of the year. This money will pay for programmer time,
bandwidth, travel, and other expenses.
I'm looking for a volunteer with experience in grant seeking
to help raise money for our antispam effort.
If you have experience in raising money through grants from
corporations, endowments, or government, please respond to
me and I will explain what we need in more detail.
As a starting point, I found this URL.
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/reference/grantsref.htm
Getting a grant looks like an achievable goal:
http://www.hitachi.org/grants/
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/about/ac48/about_cisco_grant_program09186a0080156d5a.html
http://www.galeschools.com/grant_goldmine/foundations/intel_foundation.htm
If the grants don't work out, we might also just try to
raise $5k each from 20 ISPs and antispam companies.
cheers
meng
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