Standards Group Rejects Microsoft&#39;s E-Mail Authentication Plan
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The Internet Engineering Task Force has nixed Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID proposal because of patent concerns. By Thomas Claburn. The Internet Engineering Task Force, an international standards organization, has
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America Online Inc. on Thursday shunned a Microsoft Corp. proposal to help weed out unwanted "spam" e-mail because Internet engineers are reluctant to adopt technology owned by the dominant software company.
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SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp was dealt a setback on Tuesday after the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) decided not to adopt its e-mail sender ID standard that would make it easier for Internet service providers to block unwanted junk e-mail.
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America Online Inc. on Thursday  shunned a Microsoft Corp. proposal to help weed out unwanted  "spam" e-mail because Internet engineers are reluctant to adopt  technology owned by the dominant software company.
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The open source Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is refusing to adopt technology promising to curtail the rising tide of spam, citing restrictions with Microsoft Corp.
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America Online Inc.&#39;s announcement Wednesday that it would abandon its attempts to support Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID e-mail authentication standard are a serious setback for the Redmond, Wash.
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In a blog post on Monday, the development team for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 showed screen shots of an enhancement to Outlook Web Access that enables encrypted e-mails to be sent and received through a Web browser. The demo marks the return of S/MIME support, which had been introduced to OWA before, but which had temporarily disappeared with the first release of ES 2007.
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Microsoft Corp. has failed in a first step to win enough support to make the data format behind its flagship Office software a global standard, the International Standards Organization said Tuesday.
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Two prominent open-source software groups have rejected a proposed technology standard backed by Microsoft Corp. that would close a loophole used to send unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail, citing unresolved patent and licensing issues with the standard known as Sender ID.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force, an organization devoted to  establishing standards for Internet architecture, has raised concerns  about Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Sender ID anti-spam technology as a technical  standard.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O on Monday  said it had revised its proposal to weed out "spam" e-mail to  win over skeptical Internet engineers who have been reluctant  to adopt technology owned by the dominant software company.
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p2pnet.net News:- The plan being promoted largely by Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo and Earthlink to get Sender-ID accepted as a standard is losing credibility.
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Internet engineers working on a standard for identifying the source of e-mail messages voted down a proposal by Microsoft to include some of that company&#39;s intellectual property in the specification.
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AOL withdrew its support for Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID e-mail identity standard late Wednesday, likely cementing the creation of two dominant e-mail authentication protocols.
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Microsoft's antispam Sender ID technology continues to get the cold shoulder. Now AOL adds its voice to a growing chorus of businesses and organizations shunning the proprietary e-mail authentication system.
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So much for Microsoft&#39;s Can-Spam proposal. Now you can add America Online to the growing list of ventures who&#39;ve rejected a Microsoft-patent-encumbered and lawsuit-challenged anti-spam standard, Sender ID.
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NEW YORK - 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.