Sender Policy Framework

Official Project Agenda

The SPF project agenda currently consists of the following items in order of priority:

1. Get SPFv1 published as an RFC
2. Review and move content from the old to the new website and try to make the new website sufficiently complete that the old site can be archived
3. Coordinate and drive the creation of an implementation-independent test suite
4. Update the list of library implementations, determine their states, and determine if one of them can be blessed as reference implementation immediately
5. Update the report on MTA support and get SPF into more MTA distros (in core or as plugins)
6. Update the report on OS support and get SPF into more OS distros

Loose collection of outstanding tasks

The following items and tasks have not (yet) been put on the official project agenda but need to be addressed nonetheless. If you have write access to this page, feel free to add items to this list.

• Website updates:
  • Updating the general FAQ
  • Writing a "common mistakes" section of the FAQ, or writing a separate common-mistakes FAQ
  • Writing directed responses to FUD articles such as Jonathan de Boyne Pollard's one
  • Picking a date to do the move of http://new.openspf.org to http://www.openspf.org
• Working on or brainstorming on the design of a newer version of SPF
• SPF implementations:
  • Maintain lists of implementations.
  • Bless one of them as an official reference implementation.
• MTA support:
  • Maintain lists of MTA plugins and direct MTA functionality. There are lots of sendmail milters, but postfix and qmail support is scarce.
  • Push for plugins or nonpluging inclusion of SPF functinality, in situations where neither exist.
• Start a grassroots "Spread SPF!" campaign to get in touch with domain owners and ESPs/ISPs.