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Re: My last IETF Post

2004-07-16 11:55:54
Jonathan Gardner said:

I think you guys are pushing a little too hard. Let Microsoft's lawyers
think about it for a while, and let the business people think about it
some
more.

Stalling tactics work against them because the technology can't be adopted
without their compliance.

I am pretty sure they are going to release the patent to the public
domain,
or remove their proposal. All they really want is to be dubbed "the
eternal
solver of spam and all internet ills". They don't need even more bad PR
from the internet.

If they decide to push back on the patent issues, watch MARID drop their
algorithm quicker than spit. If MARID drops it, they are irrelevant.

Or, even if MARID adopts a patent-encumbered technology, watch MARID be
dropped quicker that spit. IETF can be rendered irrelevant quite easily.

The internet community does not like patents, and that isn't changing any
time soon.

Even though tin-foil hats should be donned, in the worst case scenario we
still win. Remember we are negotiating from a position of power - 100,000
domains and counting. Microsoft is looking for our approval, looking for a
way to claim that 100,000 as their own. That's all.

So keep the arguments logical and the posts polite. They can see what you
really mean when you use corporate double talk.


I hadn't thought of MS simply wanting to lay claim to the solution.  It
makes sense now that I see it as PR.  I've never been a marketer and still
view them as shady characters.

On a side note:
Network Magazine (07/04 issue vol 19 no 7) has an article that mentions
spf on page 34.  I wish they would have double checked their numbers prior
to publication.  They say 'More than 7,000 domains have published spf
records'.  While it is correct (100,000 > 7,000), somehow, the 100,000 (I
was unable to verify this because of a MySQL error at infinitepenguins) is
much more impressive and seems more indicative of a trend when you take
into account how many domains actually exist.

And its nice to hear rational, well thought out opinions from someone who
represents a legitimate portion of the very industry that spawned the need
for something like this in the first place.


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