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Re: To all SPF-ians: Time for Chocolate

2004-07-12 14:28:58
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Mark Lentczner writes:
Dear fellow SPF-ians:

Last night, Meng and I submitted the Internet-Draft, 
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-marid-protocol-00.txt 
(should be published today or tomorrow), that defines the SPF record 
format.  It will now be discussed at IETF 60 
(http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-60.html).

If you read the draft, you'll see that other than a major re-write of 
the text, the technical aspects haven't changed much.  This reflects 
the working group chairs' concern that the draft needs to maintain 
compatibility with the over 100,000 (!) deployed SPF records.

This means that we have reached a turning point:  Time for Chocolate.

We are past the design phase.  While I'd be the first to admit that the 
current design is not perfect - we now need to gather some real 
experience, some real data, some real success stories, and some real 
difficulties - before we go around another cycle of design.

This is a call for our community to change its focus for awhile from 
abstract discussion, pure engineering design, and thought experiments, 
and turn our efforts to making what we have work: deploying it, 
gathering experience, writing about it, and doing all the extras that 
are needed to make this thing practical.

Excellent -- but first:  what is the current situation w.r.t. the IPR
issues?

- --j.
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