Microsoft has submitted a technical specification of the e-mail authentication system Sender ID to the Internet Engineering Task Force for consideration as an industry standard.
Sender ID combines Microsoft’s Caller ID for E-mail (which was submitted to the IETF for consideration in May) with Sender Policy Framework (SPF). SPF, also known as Sender Policy Framework, was authored by Meng Weng Wong, the cofounder and chief technology officer at Pobox.com, a provider of subscription-based e-mail forwarding and mailing list services. Meng submitted SPF to the IETF in February.
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