On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 05:13:30PM -0400, John Glube wrote:
| * I appreciate some will argue there are lots of benefits
| of simply moving ahead with Microsoft. I appreciate this
| position, however if that were the case, mail from and pra
| would have made it through last call without MARID being
| shut down, with mailfrom and pra checking now on the
| standards track. However, that is not the case. Instead
| what happened is the whole process "blew up," over an
| attempt by Microsoft to simply take over the whole thing.
I'll send out a more detailed summary of my recent
discussions with MS when I get the time, but for now I
should raise the point that the latest versions of the
"core" drafts I saw from MS now treat both mail-from and PRA
on an equal footing, saying that receivers can check either.
So I think that if MARID had gone on for another week, the
latest revision of Sender ID might be much more acceptable
to the group.
I don't know if this point has been brought up before, but
it changes things significantly.