Re: SPF and Inertia

> As regards IETF - no-one involved in this wants a proprietary solution
> or series of same. However no-one wants inertia either.
>
> But we have had few technical problems of this magnitude and immediate
> impact in Internet evolution and I don't think it's time to
> stand purely on process in seeking a resolution.

Let me go off on a tangent for a moment.

I've seen folks belittle real world catastrophies by comparing them to
"cyber-tasrophies" before.  While we need to deal with spam soon, and I'm all
for a rapid technical resolution, we need to remember that the Internet isn't
going to self-destruct any time soon just because of spam, and certainly not
just because of forgeries which we're trying to defeat here.

We can take our time and do this right the first time.  The Internet will
continue on without the few of us in the meantime.  I'm going to insist on as
much testing as is possible.  AOL's testing SPF is one helluva step forward
in this regard and we need more testing like it.

The world yawned when David L "Complete Idiot" Smith Destroyed the Internet
in 1999:
<http://vmyths.com/rant.cfm?id=78&page=4>

The world yawned again when ILoveYou Re-Destroyed the Internet in 2000:
<http://vmyths.com/rant.cfm?id=132&page=4>

And (you guessed it) The world yawned when Steve Gibson predicted that
Windows XP would destroy the Internet in 2001 because Microsoft implemented a
standard Internet specification in it:
<http://vmyths.com/rant.cfm?id=344&page=4>

Here we are in 2004.  The Internet should be dead by now.  Actually, I
thought it died on October 11th, 2001:
<http://vmyths.com/rant.cfm?id=419&page=4>

...and this forum shouldn't exist because of all of those.  Yet it does.
SPAM isn't going to re-re-destroy the Internet before we have a chance to
finish this research of ours.

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