[Mailman-Developers] Mailman with SXIP support, preliminary demo

Ian Eiloart iane at sussex.ac.uk
Fri Nov 12 12:10:24 CET 2004



--On Thursday, November 11, 2004 20:42:10 GMT -0800 Andy Smith 
<andyster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:31:40 -0500, Bob Puff at NLE <bob at nleaudio.com> wrote:
>> ...and SXIP would be??
> I wrote about it a bit in my previous email, I figured I would spare
> you reading it a second time... but...
>
> SXIP stands for "Simple eXstenible Identity Protocol" which is a
> protocol developed by the company I work for, coincidentally named
> "Sxip Networks" http://sxip.com and https://sxip.org

So, how is it licensed. On your web site, you refer to an "open source" 
license, but don't say which version. I can't find a copy of your license.

> SXIP is, at it's least powerful level, an authentication protocol,
> however it has the benefits of securely asserting that information is
> valid, in this case the prime target is a user's email address. So,
> since we have an email address that has already been validated by
> another site, we can trust that it is valid (needs no confirmation)
> and belongs to the user (it can be used as the identifier for admin
> and mod stuff instead of password).
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Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS



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