Anti-spam standard body dismantled
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has disbanded its anti-spam working group, MARID (MTA Authorization Records In DNS) working group, in part because of an intellectual-property row surrounding Microsoft's Sender ID proposal. Those participating in the effort are to put their various anti-spam proposals into practice, gathering real-world information that could lead to another IETF standardization effort. Other options include the creation of a standard by an industry organization or the coexistence of several standards.