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Re: Article on Microsoft patents and Caller ID

2004-09-21 15:44:10
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:08:30AM -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote:
| 
| To the best of my knowledge based on long time ago talking to Meng at 
| MARID interim meeting, the agreement with Microsoft was about combining
| SPF and CallerID as part of the MARID effort. As part of that agreement 
| Microsoft agreed to support original SPF v1 dns format in addition
| to supporting new MARID developed dns record (which was to be based
| on XML) with identity that both records authenticating being either
| mail-from rfc2821 or caller-id rfc2822 (that last part I never understood
| but it appears they thought that both identities are identical or at
| least as Mark argued that both identities SPF records would be identical).
| 

The technical details of what we agreed in May to jointly propose are shown at:

  
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200405/0199.html
  
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200405/0198.html