John Glube wrote:
why in his role as consultant to the OECD did he not
recommend that ISPs in developing countries start
implementing SPF?
In his rant he writes that he didn't like the word "FUD"
in a paper written by Meng. Adding Waye's info about
the T-FWL I come to the conclusion that he sells some
alias-style mail-forwarding services without taking the
responsibility for this action.
In other words, this is about his forwarding business.
Nothing "experimental", SPF always said that you can't
test the original MAIL FROM behind the first MX.
it is his considered opinion, based on the problems
with all the edge cases, he considers that SPF/SIDF
will do more harm than good for email at large.
What edge cases ? "SIDF" (= PRA) "experiments" with
v=spf1 are criminal net abuse, everybody knows this,
it would kill the IESG if they'd sanction it. That's
really old news, I said it already in mxcomp.
I suggest you read the referenced material on
CircleID.com and draw your own conclusions.
Some comments were funny, `nslookup -q=txt elvey.com`
led me to a page published by David Woodhouse. Also
old news, another "just forward" fan.
The only relevant info in this article plus comments
from my POV was draft-delany-nullmx-00.txt because I
didn't have it in my I-D collection.
Certainly simpler than "v=spf1 -all", I've to test it
with DynDNS, at the moment my DynDNS client won't let
me define a "null MX" even if DynDNS suppors it. Now
here's a case where a "bogusmx" would be intentional.
Bye, Frank