"AOL Dumps Sender ID"
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3408601
" AOL (Quote, Chart) has withdrawn its support for Microsoft's
controversial Sender ID technology and is falling back on Sender Policy
Framework (SPF), internetnews.com has learned.
"Given recent concerns expressed by the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF), coupled with the tepid support for Sender ID in the open
source community, AOL has decided to move forward with SPF," Nicholas
Graham, AOL spokesperson, told internetnews.com via e-mail.
Microsoft was not available for comment at press time.
...
According to Graham, AOL plans to continue with its SPF deployment and
work on more tests with related authentication technologies like
Yahoo's Domain Keys. SPF is widely deployed around the world already
and has a huge following; according to Graham, the authentication
technology is used on the e-mail servers of more than 86,000 domains
today.
"AOL remains committed to testing authentication technology in the
real world environment of large scale ISPs," he said. "SPF is the
'low-hanging fruit' in the authentication debate and, given the
momentum and common ground with the SPF protocol, is the logical first
step in the journey to combat spam."
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Anne