And this post is a great example of why “SPIT” gets so much play in the media… with what other topic can you create such a great headline?

I’ll note to readers that the particular draft presented by Dan Wing can be found at:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/draft-wing-sipping-spam-score/

The slides that Dan Wing presented can be found at:

http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/07dec/slides/sipping-4.ppt

In the discussion within the SIPPING meeting, it was clear that there was not support at the moment for this specific proposal. I do hope, though, that the IETF can come up with a plan for at least specifying the header to be used. No such effort was done in the email world and as a result each different email anti-spam tool uses its own headers and this makes enabling support in email clients a royal pain in the neck. We’ll see.