25Jun/050
IETF Approves SPF and Sender-ID
"According to the records in the IETF's database (here and here), both the SPF and Sender-ID anti-spam proposals were tentatively approved by the IESG (the approval board of the IETF) as experimental standards. It remains to be seen whether any of them will actually put a dent into spam." At the same time, the FTC has opened a central site about email authentication.
...http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/24/1921210