Well if you won’t do Sender ID we will patent SPF, take that.
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First AOL decides not to do the Microsoft
Sender ID any longer. Instead they are moving to SPF. Microsoft
is not happy but says this does not hamper their efforts.
America Online Inc.'s
announcement Wednesday that it would abandon its attempts to support Microsoft's
Sender ID e-mail authentication standard are a serious setback for the
Redmond, Wash., software company.
AOL still will provide Sender ID information
for outgoing mail so that its users can communicate with e-mail providers
using that system, but that will be the limit of support for the standard.
AOL, meanwhile, is moving ahead with its plans to implement the industry-standard
Sender Policy Framework.
But shortly after, here comes a news announcement
on a new Microsoft patent that, arguably by some, mocks the Sender Policy
Framework (SPF) used. Basically the supposed patent-free technology
now has patents being applied for.
This time, a Microsoft
patent made public Thursday appears to be broad enough to cover not only
methods of the authentication algorithms for which Microsoft wants licensing
but also the SPF (Sender Policy Framework) method being touted as a patent-free
alternative, according to legal experts and participants in the e-mail
authentication working group.
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On Monday, September 20th, 2004 by Chris Miller
