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John Levine says: SPF Loses Mindshare?

2005-08-02 21:02:07

John Levine wrote an article on his blog and it was also picked up as
a story on CircleID:

In it, John I guess says that the MAAWG and Earthlink don't much like
SPF.  Actually, this is reading between the lines of John's reading
between the lines.

See:

http://www.circleid.com/article/1157_0_1_0_C/



The meat of the story is:

    Earlier in July their technical committee quietly released an
    evaluation of SPF and Sender-ID[1]. Although it is worded very
    tactfully, the message is clear from phrases like; 

        While MAAWG neither endorses nor discourages the use of SPF or
        Sender ID, the technical committee's findings highlight
        real-world risks to the delivery of legitimate e-mail when the
        specifications are implemented. 


    At about the same time, Earthlink equally quietly removed the SPF
    records they'd been publishing for at least a year. That was
    particularly surprising because SPF originator Meng Wong had been
    working with Earthlink to get their SPF set up. If Meng can't make
    SPF work, who can?


-wayne


[1] http://www.maawg.org/news/maawg050711
    http://www.maawg.org/about/whitepapers/spf_sendID


-wayne