18% of email now includes an SPF record

Meng Meng Wong, inventor of SPF, is speaking at ISPCON this morning. He says his research shows that 18 percent of all email now includes a published SPF record. "Pretty good progress for one year," he says. As SPF gains traction, people will start sharing whitelists more widely. "When I give you my business card in the future, it won't mean 'mail me' -- it means 'put me in your white list so I can mail you.'"

So how will it become easier for someone to do that? What about iNames? Interestingly, Meng had not yet heard about iNames, introduced last week by Identity Commons. He was intrigued and says he will check it out. My mention of it will probably help connect a few dots between the identity and anti-spam worlds.