Looks like I was too late. The article I was intending to submit to IEEE
Spectrum has already been written.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/jan05/0105ndom.html
There are a few errors, as usual. AOL gets the credit for SPF. Microsoft
is credited with having registered 218,000 domains for SenderID.
And some misleading statements: "To facilitate widespread adoption, Yahoo!
and Microsoft are granting royalty-free, nonexclusive licenses to any
domain owner who wants to implement DomainKeys or Sender ID." No mention
of Open Source, or questioning the need for patents.
The article strongly favors DomainKeys, due to the problem with forwarders.
Unfortunately, there is no online feedback for the article. If anyone
cares, you might want to contact the IEEE Spectrum editors on behalf of the
SPF community.
We also need a solution to the problems with forwarders. Yes, I know about
SRS and SUBMITTER=. The problems are easily solved, technically. The real
problem is public awareness, especially journalists. I have what might be
a solution to that problem, but I don't want to restart an old debate.
-- Dave
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