There is a new chapter in the debacle which started with Microsoft’s extending and embracing of SPF and its advocate, Meng Weng Wong, and which culiminated in the collapse of an empire (well, ok, of the IETF working group tasked with evaluating Sender I.D.) due to concerns about the scopes of both the Sender I.D. patent application and Microsoft’s licensing scheme, and following the denouncement of Sender I.D. by AOL and the Apache Foundation, among others.

Microsoft announced yesterday that it has reworked the patent application, along with addressing some technical concerns, and has resubmitted Sender I.D. to the IETF for new consideration.

Attendantly, AOL has announced that it will now support Sender I.D., along with its ongoing support for SPF. [Continued…]