SPF Creator Jumps Ship
"Suppose you produce something. It could be as short as a poem or as long as a novel. You share with an audience for review. If your audience includes a good critic who knows what he's doing, he'll tell you what he thinks: and, suitably humbled, you go back and do a second draft. So those who receive are more critical than those who conceive.
"But sometimes it goes the other way. Sometimes you get fans instead of critics. Then those who conceive are more critical than those who receive. An author may be more diffident than his audience; and he may see flaws in his work where his audiences read only perfection. That's a funny situation."
That's Meng Weng Wong, the father of Sender Policy Framework, (a method for authenticating email senders). In an exclusive interview with Email Battles, Wong discussed the SPF Council, and its dogged adherence to the protocol he originally laid out in 2003. Wong claims that, unlike the SPF Council, he evolved, combining SPF with Microsoft's Caller ID, to create Sender ID. And he had a lot of supporters: "Negotiations with Microsoft on Sender ID occurred on request of a lot of big players, including Earthlink, Yahoo, AOL and Sendmail."
posted by Fergie @ 10/04/2005 02:09:00 PM
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