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Did AOL (Quote, Chart) jump the gun in its decision Wednesday to ditch Sender ID and continue with its Sender Policy Framework (SPF) deployment in the battle against spam? Developments among working groups forming a new worldwide protocol for authenticating e-mail might deflect AOL's objections.
As internetnews.com first reported Wednesday, AOL Spokesperson Nicholas Graham said the ISP (define) was withdrawing its support for for the Sender ID protocol for two reasons: lack of support from the open source community and Microsoft's decision to discard one e-mail verification standard for another.
"AOL has serious, technical concerns that Sender ID appears not to be fully, backwardly-compatible with the original SPF specification, a result of recent changes to the protocol and a wholesale change from what was first envisioned in the original Sender ID plan," Graham said.
The world's top ISP didn't completely sever its ties to Sender ID: The company will still publish Sender ID files so its users' e-mails are compliant with Sender ID-enabled servers and applications.
 News source: InternetNews.com
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