headers
Julian Mehnle | 23 Dec 00:42

The 2007 SPF Council Elections

HTML: http://www.openspf.org/Council_Election/2007-01

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The 2007 SPF Council Elections
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

In late 2004, the community of the SPF Project decided that a more
organized, cohesive approach would be needed in order to fight e-mail
identity forgery and other e-mail abuse.  Thus, the SPF Council body was
created and elected in December 2004[1].  For the first time, five council
members were chosen to lead the project.

Now in 2007, two years after the council's formation, the SPF Project goes
on to elect its third council[2].  Again, five council members will lead
the project over the next twelve months to solidify the SPF standard and
continue the battle against e-mail sender forgery according to the visions
of the project's community.

According to the council election procedures[3], this year's election
process starts on 2007-01-08.  Everyone will be eligible to vote in the
election who is subscribed to the spf-discuss mailing list[4] at that
time.  So if you would like to participate in the 2007 council elections,
please make sure that you are subscribed to that mailing list by Monday
2007-01-08 00:00 UTC[5].

Nominations for council membership should be submitted to the spf-discuss
mailing list before 2007-01-15.  Also before that date, the sitting
council will appoint a neutral election officer who will conduct the
election and certify the results.
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Julian Mehnle | 14 Dec 13:34

Website relaunch / Increasing SPF deployment and software support / The 2007 council elections


HTML: http://www.openspf.org/News/2006-12-14

======================================================================
NEWS FROM THE SENDER POLICY FRAMEWORK (SPF) PROJECT
======================================================================

----------------------------------------------------------------------
New and improved: The SPF website: http://www.openspf.org
----------------------------------------------------------------------

After a long period of planning and a lot of volunteer work, the SPF 
project is happy to present you its new website at:

  http://www.openspf.org

We have consolidated all the useful information about SPF from the old 
website[1], and we have expanded our "FAQ"[2] and "Best Practices"[3] 
sections.  Be sure to pay a visit to the new website and recommend it
to your peers (and bosses)!

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Significant increase in SPF deployment
----------------------------------------------------------------------

The publishing of SPF sender policies has increased significantly in
2006.  A recent survey[4] by MarkMonitor reports a total of over
4,000,000 SPF records published within just the .com/.net/.org top-
level domains, comprising nearly 6% of all registered .com/.net/.org 
domains!
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Julian Mehnle | 14 May 23:18

SPFv1 = RFC 4408, and other news from the SPF Project

HTML: http://new.openspf.org/News/SPFv1_is_RFC_4408

======================================================================
NEWS FROM THE SENDER POLICY FRAMEWORK (SPF) PROJECT
======================================================================

A lot has happened since the SPF project's last real news announcement
in May 2005[1]:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
The SPF project's website has moved: http://www.openspf.org
----------------------------------------------------------------------

To begin with, the project's website at http://spf.pobox.com has
moved to a new host and domain at http://www.openspf.org -- thanks to
project founder Meng Weng Wong and pobox.com for having hosted the
website for the last three years!  Everyone please update your links!

----------------------------------------------------------------------
SPFv1 = RFC 4408 = http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4408.txt
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Nineteen months after the IESG, the steering group of the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF), shut down the MARID (MTA Authorization
Records in DNS) working group and asked for individual submissions
from the SPF project and Microsoft in September 2004[2], and nearly
three years after the SPF project was initially founded by Meng Weng
Wong, the SPFv1 specification has now been published as RFC 4408[3]!

This specification has been refined from earlier editions, but great
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Julian Mehnle | 2 Jan 01:21

The 2006 SPF Council Elections


HTML: http://new.openspf.org/Council_Election/2006-01

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The 2006 SPF Council Elections
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

In late 2004, the community of the SPF Project decided that a more 
organized, cohesive approach would be needed in order to fight e-mail 
identity forgery and other e-mail abuse.  Thus, the SPF Council body was 
created and elected in December 2004[1].  Five council members were 
chosen[2] to lead the project over the following months:  Mark Kramer 
(Leiden, Netherlands), Chuck Mead (Cary, NC, USA), Julian Mehnle (Munich, 
Germany), Wayne Schlitt (Lincoln, NE, USA), and project founder Meng Weng 
Wong (Philadelphia, PA, USA).  In mid-2005, Chuck Mead left the council 
and Greg Connor (San Jose, CA, USA) took the open seat.

Now in 2006, one year after the council's formation, the SPF Project goes 
on to elect its second council[3].  Again, five council members will lead 
the project over the next twelve months to solidify the SPF standard and 
continue the battle against e-mail sender forgery according to the visions 
of the project's community.

According to the council election procedures that were passed just 
today[4], this year's election process starts today, on Monday 2006-01-02 
at 00:00 UTC.  Everyone is eligible to vote in the election who is 
subscribed to the spf-discuss mailing list.  As a one-time deviation from 
the formal procedures, due to tightness of schedule the eligibility key 
date will be postponed by one week.
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
wayne | 25 Jun 00:15

The IETF has accepted the SPF specification for RFC status!


                  Sender Policy Framework (SPF) News
                  ----------------------------------
                   by Wayne Schlitt, June 24, 2005

Greetings!

The IETF has accepted the SPF specification for RFC status!

A little over a month ago, we restarted this spf-announce mailing list
with a few updates of what had happened in the last year.   Since
then, we have been hard at work on several things, and the first to
bear fruit is the SPF specification.

This SPF specification aims to clearly define the semantics of SPF,
based on the older SPF specifications from late 2003 and early 2004,
taking into account the state of SPF implementations and making
adjustments that have been requested by the IETF.  This latest SPF
specification has undergone considerable review, not only by the SPF
community, but also by various IETF groups.

On June 6th, we submitted the completed draft for consideration by the
IETF, and today, the IETF has voted to accept the SPF specification as an
"Experimental" RFC[1].  The SPF specification still needs to go through the
RFC Editor, and this can take weeks or even months to complete.
(There are currently around 300 draft RFCs in the editor queue.)

We had asked for consideration as a "Standards Track" RFC rather than
"Experimental", but the IETF has informed us that they would only
consider "Experimental" status[2].  This was not a big surprise, but we
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Julian Mehnle | 7 May 04:24

2005-03-23: SPF for e-mail is an independent standard

HTML: http://spf.mehnle.net/Press_Release/2005-03-23
PDF:  http://spf.mehnle.net/blobs/press-release-20050323.en.pdf

======================================================================
2005-03-23: SPF for e-mail is an independent standard
======================================================================

----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) Project makes a clear statement on
the independence of its SPF e-mail sender authentication protocol.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA -- March 23, 2005 -- The SPF Project
wishes to make clear the independence and standing of SPF, its
proposed standard for sender authentication of electronic mail.

During the functional period of the Internet Engineering Task Force's
MARID working group, several mutations of the SPF protocol specification
were published.  These specifically include "draft-lyon-senderid-core"
and "draft-lentczner-spf", which constitute the Sender-ID protocol
proposed by Microsoft Corporation.  None of those drafts should be
considered officially sanctioned by the SPF project.

After the collapse of MARID and the subsequent formation of the SPF
Council, the SPF project's steering committee, a new line of
specification drafts, "draft-schlitt-spf-classic", has now been created
and submitted to the IETF for standardization.  This line of drafts
exclusively defines the SPF protocol by authority of the SPF project.

In its current Sender-ID specification and through its public
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Julian Mehnle | 7 May 04:17

2004-12-22: SPF Council elected and organized

HTML: http://spf.mehnle.net/Press_Release/2004-12-22
PDF:  http://spf.mehnle.net/blobs/press-release-20041222.en.pdf

======================================================================
2004-12-22: SPF Council elected and organized
======================================================================

----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Sender Policy Framework Project announces the election and
official organization of its first council
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, December 22, 2004 -- The SPF Project, an
Internet project dedicated to stopping e-mail forgery and spam,
announces the election results for its first elected council.  This
election is one of several steps the SPF community is taking to create
a more organized, cohesive approach to fighting electronic mail abuse.

SPF's founder, Meng Weng Wong said, "A benevolent dictatorship is a
great way to start a project, but now that we have over 5000 people on
various mailing lists, a more structured form of organization is
necessary, and I'm glad to see the SPF community self-organize in this
fashion."

The council election took place in late November 2004 and was
finalized on 2 December 2004.  The council's purpose is to steer the
overall SPF standardization effort, promote uptake of SPF on the
global Internet, and to further develop and improve SPF
communications.  Elected to the council were Mark Kramer (Leiden,
Netherlands), Chuck Mead (Cary, NC, USA), Julian Mehnle (Munich,
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
wayne | 5 May 05:07

The return of the spf-announce mailing list.


                  Sender Policy Framework (SPF) News
                  ----------------------------------
                        by Wayne, May 4, 2005

Greetings!

If you are receiving this email, it means that you have subscribed to
the spf-announce mailing list.  Sadly, the last announcement was sent
over a year ago, and I am mostly to blame for this.  I apologize.  We
are attempting to restart this list, so expect least a couple of
emails to be posted in the next week or so.

If you are no longer interested in following the SPF email
anti-forgery system, please use link at the bottom of the message to
stop the emails.  If, for some reason, that doesn't work, feel free to
email me.

The past year has been very hectic.  Here is a list of some of the
things that have happened:

* SPF has been renamed from "Sender Permitted From" to "Sender Policy
  Framework" to better reflect how SPF can be used to create policy
  about how your domain is used.

* The number of domains that have published SPF records has grown from
  an estimated 60,000 a year ago, to over a million today.  (A factor
  of 15.)

* The number of email checked against SPF records is harder to
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
wayne | 4 Feb 21:47

SPF News: SPF growth, MIT spam conference, and code developments


                   Sender Permitted From (SPF) News
                   --------------------------------
                      by Wayne, February 4 2004

The growth rate of SPF has been inconceivable.  Just trying to keep up
with everything will keep you very busy.  Here summary of what's been
going on in the last couple of weeks.

                    *** SPF is Growing Quickly ***

Since the last SPF News update, the number of domains listed on the
SPF adoption roll has doubled from 3,000 to 6,000 and this is far from
a complete list.  Meng reports that around of a third of the people
who have used the SPF Wizard have added SPF records for their domain.
Other indicators show that the number of systems checking SPF records
has also more than doubled.  There have also been several new
well-known domains that have adopted SPF, including:

        w3.org             The website for standardizing the web.
        motleyfool.com     Financial news and analysis website
        symantec.com       A major anti-virus software company
        ticketmaster.com   The lead seller of concert/sports tickets

Also see:
http://www.infinitepenguins.net/SPF/register.php
http://spftools.infinitepenguins.net/earlyadopters.php
http://spf.pobox.com/wizard.html

SPF has been in news a lot lately.  There are frequent references to
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Meng Weng Wong | 15 Jan 01:01
Picon

SPF News: AOL, Slashdot, and the MIT Spam Conference

	      Sender Permitted From (SPF) News
	      --------------------------------
		 by Wayne, January 14 2004

A lot has happened with the SPF anti-forgery system since
last month's news update.  We will try make announcements
more regularly, perhaps once a week.

			*** AOL ***

The biggest news by far is that AOL has published SPF
records and there are indications that some other big email
providers may do likewise.  This is helping to move SPF into
the mainstream.  AOL's record shows that SPF is flexible
enough that even major emailers can describe their outbound
mailers in a very compact form.

		      *** Slashdot ***

Thanks to AOL, SPF showed up on slashdot.org again.  See:

  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/09/0435234&mode=thread&tid=111&tid=120&tid=126&tid=187

	      *** Over 3000 Domains Served ***

Thanks in turn to Slashdot, the SPF registry more than
tripled the number of known SPF adopters from just under
1000 to over 3000 domains and the number is growing every
day.  This adoption roll is voluntary and so there are
certainly many more domains that are using SPF than this.
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Meng Weng Wong | 16 Dec 21:54
Picon

SPF on slashdot again; setup wizard available; logos available

			 For Slashdot watchers

SPF was featured under the "Developers" section.

  http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/16/0349243&mode=thread&tid=111&tid=126&tid=95

There's nothing in the comments that hasn't been brought up before.
If you choose not to read them, you're not missing anything.

				 * * *

	  If you've been waiting for the standard to stabilize
		       before publishing records:

The standard has stabilized.  You can publish records now.

				 * * *

	      New setup wizard helps you publish records.

95% of domains can be described using very simple SPF records.

The wizard at http://spf.pobox.com/wizard.html will help those domains
generate records.

(More complex setups will have to read the rest of the website :)

Infinite Penguins has an independent wizard at
http://www.infinitepenguins.net/SPF/create.php
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |

Gmane