At 9:37 AM -0500 12/6/03, Clement Ross wrote:What do you think of Yahoo's public/private key proposal using the DNS and a new header:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&e=12&u=/nm/tech_yahoo_dc
It makes me realize that any implementation will be disruptive in some ways but I guess it's the price we might have to pay to really slow down the spammers.
Is Yahoo working on this with/through the Internet Engineering Task Force (or whatever it's called) to work up a RFC? Or are they trying to get it up and running with a few big users on board so as to force it to become a de facto standard in a Microsoftian kind of maneuver?
That's not completely clear.
Note that the internal IETF/IRTF standards-generation process suffers from some of the worst problems typical of rules-making committees of other types, with the added feature that anyone can insert themselves into the process and there is no will to exclude anyone except in cases of extreme disruption or bad behavior. It is no great surprise to anyone who has watched the process closely that so many areas like spam control, DNSSEC, and IPv6 adoption are taking forever to formalize. It is absolutely legitimate for entities like Yahoo to design a technology and start using it and get others to do so and then go to the IETF for formal ratification, and in fact that is probably a faster way to get things done than to work initially through the process. If the process was basically functional, we'd be talking NOW about how SIMS wasn't supporting the new standardized spam-control methods instead of looking at that prospect as likely within the next year.
-- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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