Hello Julian,
I would suggest that a clear definition of the council's goals and
schedule would be an appropriate and important topic at your next meeting.
I think that without a plan, there's no point going on with SPF.
Thanks,
Radu.
Julian Mehnle wrote:
HTML: http://spf.mehnle.net/Council_Meeting/2005-03-22
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The Council Meeting on 2005-03-22
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On Tuesday 2005-03-22 at 22:30 UTC, the council held a meeting on IRC[1].
There was a pre-planned agenda[2]. Chuck, Julian, Mark, and Meng were
present; Wayne was absent.
Chairman's Report. Chuck presented the press release[3] regarding the new
line of SPF specification drafts and SPF's independence from Sender-ID
that he had co-authored with Julian. Meng suggested that more press
contacts be added to the press release, and so it was decided to add Chuck
as a second contact for the USA and Mark as a contact for Europe. No
further changes were requested, so the press release was finally put to
vote[4]. Chuck, Julian, and Mark voted in favor. Meng abstained,
explaining[5] that he was worried that "any amount of dissension between
the SPF community and the MS side" might confuse observant fence sitters
and thus hold back adoption, but that his reservations were "no big deal".
Due to the meeting having been preponed from Wednesday to Tuesday on short
notice, Wayne was not present and thus could not cast a vote. As the end
result the press release was formally adopted. Meng promised to
distribute it through the spf-announce mailing list and post it to
http://spf.pobox.com.
Executive Director's Report.
* Funding. Meng reported that the HSARPA grant proposal[6] had been
refused by Douglas Maughan, the HSARPA program manager, and that he
expected to have a post-mortem talk for the proposal with one of their
staff by the end of March. He pointed out that a response to the
proposal[7] to the US National Science Foundation was still outstan-
ding and that one could not be expected before fall. Furthermore,
Meng noted that he had the impression that Microsoft and Yahoo might
be a potential last-resort source for funding the development of MTA
integration of various sender authentication methods. Julian added
that he was planning to seek funding from the EU and the German
government within the next three months.
* Public Relations and Raising Awareness. Finally, Meng reported that
during March he had given presentations on SPF and on sender
authentication and reputation in general at several conferences to
varying audiences, ranging from APRICOT[8], through individual ISPs
and IT companies, up to IT-ISAC[9] and MAAWG[10]. When asked what he
considered to be the point of giving all these talks and presenta-
tions, Meng explained that his intentions were to "educate the masses"
on sender authentication and advise ISPs and organizations to deploy
SPF. He added that he had noticed a specific interest among ISPs to
shift from content-based filtering to sender-reputation-based
filtering.
Motion: Commend Wayne for his CBR Online Interview. Frank Ellermann had
suggested that Wayne be commended for the way he had handled the Computer
Business Review Online interview[11]. Mark made the motion, which was
adopted unanimously.
At 23:28, Chuck had to leave and thus, with only three council members
left, quorum was lost.
Project Website. Julian reported that he had worked out a preliminary
plan[12] for setting up a renewed project website, posted it to the
spf-discuss mailing list for review, solicited hosting offers, and
collected comments on requirements and suggestions for potential software
solutions. After two weeks, he had presented first conclusions and
recommendations[13]. He reported that his original recommendations for
requirements had went mostly undisputed, and so he explained to Meng that
he feared that the shared edit access and independence criteria were not
fulfilled to a sufficient degree by Meng's last hosting offer. Julian and
Mark affirmed that they appreciated Meng's hosting offer but voiced
concerns over the website not entirely being under the control of the
council. Meng explicitly expressed his willingness to grant shared edit
access for the entire council[14] and to facilitate an external backup of
the hosted website[15]. Various possible implementations for the website
were discussed briefly, and in the end it was decided that Julian and Meng
work out the details by e-mail.
Due to the lack of a quorum, the "Webmasters" and "Domains" proposals[16]
could not be put to vote. Due to the late hour, the remaining agenda
items, "General operation of spf-announce?" and "DNS Load Issue", were
adjourned and the meeting was then concluded at 00:10 UTC.
Julian Mehnle,
SPF Council Secretary.
References:
1. http://www.schlitt.net/spf/spf-council/2005/03/22_irc_log.html#20050322T2231
2. http://moongroup.com/pipermail/spf-council/2005-March/000198.html
3. http://spf.mehnle.net/Press_Release/2005-03-23
4. http://www.schlitt.net/spf/spf-council/2005/03/22_irc_log.html#20050322T2245
5. http://www.schlitt.net/spf/spf-council/2005/03/22_irc_log.html#20050322T2246
6. http://spf.mehnle.net/Council_Meeting/2004-12-11
7. http://spf.mehnle.net/Council_Meeting/2005-02-09
8. http://www.2005.apricot.net/conference.html#C6-4
9. http://www.it-isac.org
10. http://www.maawg.org/news/0503_GeneralMeeting#Agenda
11.
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=44D2955C-3C04-4BA1-AC45-AF8277B8B455
12.
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200502/0322.html
13.
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200503/0162.html
14. http://www.schlitt.net/spf/spf-council/2005/03/22_irc_log.html#20050322T2338
15. http://www.schlitt.net/spf/spf-council/2005/03/23_irc_log.html#20050323T0001
16.
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200503/0162.html
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