AOL walks away from Microsoft's SenderID scheme
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Just days after the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) shot down Microsoft's proposed SenderID scheme for eliminating spam email, America Online (AOL) has given the plan the boot as well. Previously, AOL had aligned itself with Microsoft to promote SenderID, but AOL now says that it is backing out because of the reluctance of the IETF, which cited patent concerns. AOL will likely adopt a similar, but competing, scheme to SenderID that's offered by Yahoo, company officials said. I haven't seen this many people shoot down a proposed standard since Netscape introduced the "Blink" HTML tag.