First, a brief chronology, from December, 2003:

  • It’s DomainKeys for sure!
  • No, it’s CallerID!
  • No, No. It’s SPF!
  • It’s absolutely SenderID!

Backgrounder for today’s frenzy: Yahoo needed more… gravitas… to pull off the DomainKeys coup. Kneepadded Cisco, and… Voila! DomainKeys Identified Mail. That’s DKIM, for us would-be in-the-know types.

So now, it’s DKIM for sure… absolutely… beyond a shadow of a doubt…

Wrong. The final recipe will include enough of each idea so every solon’s a winner. Nobody loses face.

We told you before to keep your powder dry. So keep your powder dry.

Our Prediction: The first adopters will be the spam kings… Again.