Engineers kill Sender ID amid Microsoft patent row

Engineers kill Sender ID amid Microsoft patent row
Anick Jesdanun, The Associated Press 2004-09-27

A row over intellectual property claims from Microsoft Corp. has dealt a fatal blow to an ambitious effort by Internet engineers to create a technical standard for curbing junk e-mail.

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Engineers kill Sender ID amid Microsoft patent row 2004-09-28
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Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwall said the company would continue to push Sender ID regardless of the IETF's decision. He said smaller companies might hesitate without standards but larger ones won't change their plans.

Once you get a critical mass of people adopting Sender ID, it becomes for the smaller sender critically important they adopt it as well," he said.

-- My only thought is, "Why does Microsoft get to push there way past the IETF?"

Is this similar to monopolizing, or in the least, using one's market girth to force things in a particular way? Necessarily bad, I do not believe so; however, Microsoft ought to worry more about its own security issues before pushing technology on the "smaller sender".

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