On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:37:18AM -0400, Andrew Newton wrote:
|
| It is the opinion of the co-chairs at this time (before the end of last
| call) that the MARID working group has no consensus regarding the
| deployment of Sender ID. This lack of consensus centers around the IPR
| associated with the PRA algorithm. Since predicting deployment is a
| subjective matter and not strictly a technical concern, we would like
| to offer the working group a proposal for modifying Sender ID that
| would take the issue of deployment out of the hands of the IETF and
| place it in the hands of the ultimate decision-makers, the systems and
| network administrators of the Internet. We feel that this is where
| decisions of deployment should really be made.
|
| It is also the opinion of the co-chairs that many in the working group
| are willing to deploy MAIL FROM checking as specified in
| draft-mengwong-spf. Therefore, we ask for consideration of the
| following proposal:
|
| The ABNF in -protocol 3.4.1 is (mostly from a post by Wayne)
|
| version = "spf2." ver-minor "/" ver-scope *( "," ver-scope )
| ver-minor = 1*DIGIT
| ver-scope = "pra" / "mailfrom" / name
| name = alpha *( alpha / digit / "-" / "_" / "." )
|
| And the following stipulations:
|
| 1) "mailfrom" checking will be defined in a new draft
| 2) multiple records are allowed
| 3) a scope (e.g. "pra") can only appear in one record of one type for
| validity purposes
|
| The question before the working group: assuming no technical errors
| with the above, is there anybody who vehemently objects with this
| proposal?
|
| -andy