The IETF has accepted the SPF specification for RFC status!

                  Sender Policy Framework (SPF) News
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                   by Wayne Schlitt, June 24, 2005

Greetings!

The IETF has accepted the SPF specification for RFC status!

A little over a month ago, we restarted this spf-announce mailing list
with a few updates of what had happened in the last year.   Since
then, we have been hard at work on several things, and the first to
bear fruit is the SPF specification.

This SPF specification aims to clearly define the semantics of SPF,
based on the older SPF specifications from late 2003 and early 2004,
taking into account the state of SPF implementations and making
adjustments that have been requested by the IETF.  This latest SPF
specification has undergone considerable review, not only by the SPF
community, but also by various IETF groups.

On June 6th, we submitted the completed draft for consideration by the
IETF, and today, the IETF has voted to accept the SPF specification as an
"Experimental" RFC[1].  The SPF specification still needs to go through the
RFC Editor, and this can take weeks or even months to complete.
(There are currently around 300 draft RFCs in the editor queue.)

We had asked for consideration as a "Standards Track" RFC rather than
"Experimental", but the IETF has informed us that they would only
consider "Experimental" status[2].  This was not a big surprise, but we