It may be jumping the gun.
First, Wayne et al, need to get SPF1 adopted by the IETF.
Then we can begin to have a new discussion on what's "next" because we must
make it backward compatible. We need to do this as a clean slate looking
at all the issues that we know about, and then some. The key thing is that
SENDER-ID/PRA is NOT the only consideration. There are a bunch of new
possible extensions we can do with SPF.
Once we have an official RFC for SPF1, you are going to see a bunch of new
follow ups, drafts, BCPs, etc. Just like we have ESMTP for SMTP, we can
think of it as ESPF (Extended SPF).
In fact, I think that should be the acronym for future extensions - ESPF
"Extended SPF" This is a lot better than confusing the world with SPF2,
SPF3, etc.,
Julian, Wayne, etc, I would to use the term ESPF at the web site and here
so that it can be trademarked by usage.
We can think of SPF2/SenderID as an ESPF extension.
In that vain, I don't seeing a problem with new discussions about new ESPF
drafts starting today. :-)
--
Hector Santos, Santronics Software, Inc.
http://www.santronics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Boyd Lynn Gerber" <gerberb(_at_)zenez(_dot_)com>
Newsgroups: spf.-.sender.policy.framework.discussion
To: <spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com>
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 3:13 AM
Subject: [spf-discuss] SPF 2/3 maybe it is time to get this going.
Hi All,
After the last council session and what I read from the IETF/IESG, maybe
the next generation needs to be done. I am very glad we have a SPF V1
Spec and it documents what exists now. From all the rumbling, on the
standards list, it appears they really want the next generation of SPF.
Maybe we should take some time and start developing it.
I am not suggesting to stop the work on getting the existing version as an
RFC, but with what has been happening a Revised/Version 2/3 SPF may make a
lot of sense. It seems they really want something that has come from the
1.5-2.0 years of SPF experience. This may be an opportunity to get
something done. We have been waiting now for almost a year since MADRID,
to start on the next version. So maybe it should get started.
Just my $.02