On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 03:14:26PM -0500,
wayne <wayne(_at_)midwestcs(_dot_)com> wrote
a message of 25 lines which said:
I don't think anyone else can step forward and get an RFC created.
The IESG will almost certainly reject any I-D that tries to
standardize the SPF records that doesn't come from Meng, Mark, and
Microsoft.
I'm far from being as sure as you are. In *theory* (RFC 2026, 2223 and
3160), any individual can submit anything and have it published as a
RFC (Informational or Experimental, not on the Standards Track).
You can even start from the current drafts: read the legal boilerplate
they include, you do not even need permission from the authors to take
over their work and use it. So, SPF classic is "free".
Of course, like every human organization, the IETF does not work
entirely according to the theory. Some people have more influence than
the others. But I believe there is a fair chance that a non-Meng I-D
on SPF may be published.