Working on anti-forgery stuff. Here is my latest post to the IETF MARID working group. (Might be interesting to some folks but I’m mostly keeping it in my journal for myself)

Here is a quick view of what I have been working on in my spare time :) I have been interested in anti-spam anti-forgery initiatives for quite some time… some of the early writing in this journal is about spam and how we should be fighting it. One of the recent initiatives/proposals to combat forgery is SPF. I have been tracking it and staying active on its list, in addition to keeping up with SPAM-L and also participating in MARID, which is an IETF group checking out anti-forgery efforts with an eye toward publishing an Internet RFC. Here is a summary of one recent event. Also, due to my persistent, positive presence on the SPF discussion list, and participation in a few in-person meetings, and possibly also due to my strategic Silicon Valley location, I was asked to speak on another panel next week in SF… I will keep everyone posted as to how that goes. /gregc. The INBOX event took place over two days (I think) and I didn’t go to the whole show, but I attended the two evening sessions that were related to SPF. On the whole it was a *VERY* positive show for us. Here is a description.

I was fortunate enough to be invited to dinner with Meng Weng Wong, Harry and Jim from Microsoft, and some others from Verisign, IBM, Spamhaus, etc. Over beers, we talked about the ideas that Meng/Harry/Jim had hammered out over the previous couple days. (This is part of the MARID working group meeting last week, though not the only part. Is anyone interested in the rest of the meeting? :) I am a long-time supporter of SPF and I was skeptical of anything that would appear to be a compromise to MS. But, the two proposals had more things in common than they had differences. ...

Hello friends! I am not dead. In fact, I have been enjoying my new job. My boss even let me take a day and a half paid so I could go to an anti-spam-type meeti ng. It was the IESG Anti-Forgery Working Group (the group trying to come up with an RFC that stops forged email). More on that in another post. I have just read 159 friends and community entries (2 days’ worth) so I am caught up but now sort of tired.

“Paging Mr. Trip. The future you requested is here. Apologies for the 4-year delay.”

I have installed a copy of LiveJournal Server at http://testing.nekodojo.org:8080/. This is to help me evaluate whether LJ could be used as part of a larger spam-reporting collaboration system. Feel free to play, if you want to create a journal for the hell of it :) It might go away at some point.

Harley seems to be doing fine, other than a few lost teeth. He has some tartar built up on some teeth - including one large piece that the vet was able to break off with a thumbnail. He also has one tooth that is not really lost but has been covered over by gum and will eventually be re-absorbed back into the body. The doctor recommended that we should brush his teeth, once a day if we can. We haven’t started that, yet, but we are starting to stroke him on the face to get him used to being touched on/around the mouth.

1. SGI is cool. A lot like DEC I think. Lots of IRIX workstations. 2. People have been treating me really cool. I think someone told them that I’m the smart guy who will solve all their problems. This is better than starting from zero, I must say. Hopefully I can do a really good job! 3. No pager yet :)

I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here, to tell you how it’s going to begin. I’m going to hang up this phone and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world, without you. Some years from now, I may look back and wish that I had written more about this period, this week, this month.

Tonight we had: Filet, salt, pepper, garlic, and 13 min under the broiler Greek salad, courtesy of Safeway, with a bit of crumbled goat cheese added Asparagus, just a little butter and salt Yum! (Oh, and finding out that I won’t lose my severance after all, that was good too. Three months’ pay is always tasty.)