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Spam – Controlling Unsolicited Bulk Email

Spam is a social abuse of Internet messaging services. Technical solutions must follow social consensus about the nature and boundaries of these abuses. To date, no effort to control spam has had widespread, long-term effectiveness. However it is already clear that spam is here to stay and that we must seek to control it, rather than eliminate it. Further many different control mechanism are needed, including legal, technical and operational.

Community Discussion

 

DKIM's SSP Effort -- Is there a role for MAAWG?
  • MAAWG / Toronto, November 2006  »  ppt
Reputation Discussion Panels: Seeking a Common Understanding
  • MAAWG / S.F., March 2006  »  ppt
A Trust Overlay for Email Operations: DKIM and Beyond
  • Apricot / Perth, February 2006  »  ppt
Challenges in Anti-Spam Efforts
  • IPJ Magazine, Vol.8, No.4, December 2005  »  html
DNS-based Message-Transit Authentication Techniques
  • DENIC Registrar's Meeting, Frankfurt, Sept. 2005  »  ppt
Adapting Global Email for Controlling Spam

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System Aspects of Spam Control
  • IBM Academy, Feb. 2005  »  ppt
Authentication Approaches
  • APCauce/Apricot, Kyoto, Feb. 2005 »  ppt
  • Handling Service Support: CSV & BATV   »  html, pdf, ppt
Spamming Anti-Spam Solution Space
  • SDForum Security SIG, Palo Alto, Oct. 2004 »  ppt
How Will Authentication Reduce Global Spam?
  • OECD Anti-Spam Task Force II, Pusan, Sept. 2004  »  ppt
A Retrospective on Future Anti-Spam Standards
  • China Anti-Spam Workshop II, Beijing, Sept. 2004  »  ppt
INBOX Conference
  • Email Authentications, San Jose, CA – 2004   »  ppt
  • Email Success Failure  »  ppt
China Anti-Spam Workshop
  • Taking Common Action Against Spam, Internet Society of China, Keynote, Apr. 2004, Beijing  »  ppt
  • Trip Report on the Chinese efforts to fight spam
Spam: Ready, Fire, Aim
  • APCause Keynote Apricot 2004, Kuala Lumpur  »  ppt–with animation, pdf–without animation
A Letters to the Editor "conversation" on spam control, in  »  Technology Review
Holistic Evaluation
  • ISPCon Santa Clara » ppt
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Technical

 

DNS Scoped Data Through Attribute Leaves With the DNS leading-underscore naming construct, the choice of valid RRs is limited to a defined set. It defines a scope-constrained attribute space for the containing domain name.
  • draft-crocker-dns-attrleaf-02  »  txt, html
Email Submission Operations: Access and Accountability Requirements
Bounce Address Tag Validation (BATV) Using a public convention for adding signature information to RFC2821.MailFrom addresses, including a localized, storage-friendly hash method:
  • draft-levine-batv-03  »  html, txt
Registration-based Validation
Technical Considerations for Spam Control
Unsolicited Bulk Email: Mechanisms for Control
  • Report, Internet Mail Consortium  »  html
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Facsimile over Email

Developing a profile for email service to match the business quality document exchange capabilities provided by telephone-based facsimile

IFAX service of ENUM
SMTP Service Extension for Content Negotiation
Browsefax Integration
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Email

Augmented BNF (ABNF)

No, this isn't really email, but it grew out of the RFC733/RFC822 work and I don't have a better category, on this page...

Minor revision, to prepare for elevation to Draft Standard.

  • draft-crocker-abnf-rfc2234bis-00, 9 Mar 05  »  html, txt
Internet Mail Architecture

Formal specification of the current email service. Specification began in 2004 and has iterated through many public reviews. It is essential complete and is being submitted for IETF standards consideration:

  • Internet-Draft — draft-crocker-email-arch-10, Feb 08  »  html, pdf, txt

Interim, unreleased, non-ID version, pending final review by sponsoring AD, but reflecting continuing enhancements:

  • Internet-Draft draft-crocker-email-arch-11-14dc, Aug 08  »  html, pdf, txt
Scope and Structure of Internet Mail Addresses
Mandatory MIME Security Considered Harmful
The impact email work done at The Rand
Corporation in the mid-1970’s
  • A personal, informal perspective  »  pdf
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Instant Messaging and Presence

Common Presence and Instant Messaging (CPIM)
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Global Internet

Media Format Choices for RFCs
  • draft-crocker-rfc-media-00
      »  pdf, html, txt 
  • Differences from draft-rfc-image-files-00, by Braden and Klensin
      »  inline, side-by-side 

 

BBC4 Radio, Today Programme 3-part series: Online Crime

Mine was the final segment.
Preserve and Enhance: Balancing Goals for the Internet
  • Apricot Keynote 2004, Kuala Lumpur (ppt / pdf)
Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace.

Milton L. Mueller's ostensible analysis of name and number assignment processes for the Internet:

  • My review of it The Internet Protocol Journal - Volume 5, Number 4, Cisco, January, 2003  »  html
  • Mueller response and my follow-up The Internet Protocol Journal - Volume 6, Number 1, Cisco  »  html
The Debate Over Internet Governance:  A Snapshot in the Year 2000 Interview, with Berkman Center for Internet and Society, 2000  »  html

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