Official Project Agenda
The SPF project agenda currently consists of the following items in order of priority:
- Bless one or more of the library implementations as reference implementation(s)
- Start a grassroots "Spread SPF!" campaign to get in touch with domain owners and ESPs/ISPs.
Continuing Tasks
- Keep the news up to date
- Update the list of library implementations and their states
- Get SPF into more MTA distros (in core or as plugins), and update the report on MTA support
- Get SPF into more OS distros, and update the report on OS support
Loose collection of outstanding tasks
If you have write access to this page, feel free to add to or edit items on the following list.
Tasks related to existing Project Agenda items
- Website updates:
- Public relations:
- 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.
Other Tasks
- Gather data to satisfy the goals of the IETF experiment.
- Working on or brainstorming on the design of a newer version of SPF.
- Improve the record building and validation toolset to reduce the error rate in published SPF records.
- Standard format for "Debugging" response to SPF softfail result.
Completed Past Agenda Items
- Get SPFv1 published as an RFC
- Review and move content from the old website to the new website and try to make the new one sufficiently complete that the old one can be archived
- Coordinate and drive the creation of an implementation-independent test suite
