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News The IETF is likely to establish a working group to further debate DKIM, the Yahoo! This submission to the IETF represents collaboration between a lot of players in the email authentication world. The... [12 Jul 2005]
Anti-spam proposals get the nod
News The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), a division of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), said it would publish two competing and overlapping sets of documents that define ways of confirming email senders... [30 Jun 2005]
Gmail to thwart phishing with a big red box
News The IETF is the body that defines standard internet protocols such as TCP/IP. Google's popular free web-based email service is testing phishing protection designed to alert members to potential email fraud attacks. [05 Apr 2005]
Microsoft staking claim to internet protocols?
News Larry Blunk, a developer and researcher for Merit Network, wrote an email on 30 October outlining his concerns to the Onternet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Intellectual Property working group of the Iternet Engineering Task Force... [11 Nov 2004]
Microsoft email 'caller ID' questioned
News Sundwall would not say whether the IETF's censure would hinder the company's quest to get its Caller ID proposal accepted as a de facto internet standard. Internet engineers working on a standard for identifying the... [14 Sep 2004]
Microsoft double whammy hammers spam
News It has submitted the merger - called Sender ID - to the internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for approval. Microsoft has merged two email authentication methods into a single proposed standard in an attempt to clamp... [29 Jun 2004]
Standards group takes aim at spam
News An official Anti-Spam Research Group - a US-based body - has been convened under the auspices of the Internet Research Task Force, a loose organisation affiliated with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). [06 Mar 2003]
Router holes 'threaten the internet'
News The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the group that sets the technical standards for the internet, has worked to formulate a specification for Secure BGP. The border gateway protocol, a widely used technology for... [03 Mar 2003]
IM shake-up approved
News The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the group that sets the technical standards for the internet, gave the go-ahead to the creators of open-source instant-messaging application Jabber to create a working group... [04 Nov 2002]
Storage technology clears key hurdle
News Only minor changes are required before the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) endorses iSCSI as a formal version 1.0 standard. One of the hurdles for the technology's adoption was the IETF's... [06 Sep 2002]
Encryption guru joins Hushmail
News His primary mission is to integrate Hush's technology with the OpenPGP encryption standard endorsed by the Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF). Cryptography guru Philip Zimmermann claims users have been slow to use... [27 Feb 2001]
Asian characters take naming to a new domain
News It is this vast expansion that worries the engineers of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as they struggle towards the design of 'Unicode' - a standard to cover all character sets. There is a respected process... [13 Nov 2000]
Net guru predicts IPv6 future lies in mobile web
News The specifications for IPv6 have been under development with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for some time and include a considerable number of improvements on the previous version, IPv4. He claimed wireless... [06 Nov 2000]
AOL adopts open stance in IM row
News AOL has made conciliatory moves in its instant messaging (IM) battle by submitting a standards proposal for IM software to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). AOL's pre-emptive strike to the IETF... [19 Jun 2000]
Vendor warfare accused of destroying SAN market
News Currently, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) oversees broader vendor co-operation, and organisations such as ANSI and IETF set actual standards. The burgeoning market for Storage Area Networks (SAN) is... [10 Apr 2000]
