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Recent Activities |
Spam – Controlling
Unsolicited Bulk Email |
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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 mechanisms are needed, including
legal, technical and operational.
Community Discussion
| Fighting Abuse with Trust |
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| Email Trust Does Not
Look for Miscreants |
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| The Truth About: Trust
and DKIM |
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| Trust in
Email Begins with Authentication |
Discussion of an email trust model,
and comparison of common authentication methods used
as the basis for trust. Written for MAAWG.
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| DKIM's SSP
Effort -- Is there a role for MAAWG? |
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| Reputation
Discussion Panels: Seeking a Common Understanding |
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| A Trust Overlay
for Email Operations: DKIM and Beyond |
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| Challenges
in Anti-Spam Efforts |
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| DNS-based
Message-Transit Authentication Techniques |
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| Adapting
Global Email for Controlling Spam |
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IPSJ Magazine — Special
issue on Anti-Spam, Vol.46, No.7, pp.741-746, July
2005 » Japanese pdf / English pdf
Notice
for the use of the Japanese version:
The copyright of this material is retained
by the Information Processing Society
of Japan (IPSJ). This material is published
on this web page with the agreement of
the author(s) and the IPSJ. Please be
complied with Copyright Law of Japan
and the » Code
of Ethics of IPSJ if any users wish
to reproduce, make derivative work, distribute
or make available to the public any part
or whole thereof. All Rights Reserved,
Copyright (C) Information Processing
Society of Japan. Comments are welcome.
Mail to address » Publication
Section, please. |
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| System Aspects
of Spam Control |
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| Authentication
Approaches |
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APCauce/Apricot,
Kyoto, Feb. 2005 » ppt
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Handling Service
Support: CSV & BATV » html, pdf, ppt
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| Spamming Anti-Spam
Solution Space |
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| How Will Authentication
Reduce Global Spam? |
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| A Retrospective
on Future Anti-Spam Standards |
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| INBOX Conference |
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Email Authentications,
San Jose, CA – 2004 » ppt
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Email Success Failure » ppt
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| China
Anti-Spam Workshop |
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Taking Common
Action Against Spam, Internet Society of China,
Keynote, Apr. 2004, Beijing » ppt
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Trip
Report on the Chinese efforts to fight spam
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| Spam: Ready,
Fire, Aim |
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| A Letters
to the Editor "conversation" on spam control,
in » Technology
Review |
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| Holistic Evaluation |
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Technical
| DOmain
SEcurity TAgging (DOSETA) |
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Core mechanism
draft-crocker-doseta-core » html, txt
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MIMEAUTH — Signing a MIME
object
draft-crocker-doseta-mimeauth » html, txt
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| Trust
and Brands |
Clarifies the benefit of DKIM and
suggests a use with well-known brands
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| DKIM
Enhancement
& Support |
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RFC
4871 DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures
-- Errata
dkim–rfc4871–errata–06 » html, txt
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DKIM Service Overview,
RFC 5585 » pdf, html, txt
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DomainKeys Identified
Mail (DKIM) Development, Deployment and Operations
draft-ietf-dkim-deployment-07 » pdf, html, txt
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| Affiliations
List (AffiL) project |
Authentication-based
validation of membership (affiliation) in a published
group list.
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Proposal
for a Pilot Project:
Using DKIM to Create a Email Trust Channel |
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| 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.
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| Email
Submission Operations: Access and Accountability Requirements |
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| Bounce
Address Tag Validation (BATV) |
Using a public convention for adding
signature information to RFC2821.MailFrom addresses,
including a localized, storage-friendly hash method:
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| Registration-based
Validation |
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| Technical Considerations
for Spam Control |
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3rd AP Net Abuse Workshop, Busan » ppt
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| Unsolicited
Bulk Email: Mechanisms for Control |
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Developing a profile for email service to
match the business quality document exchange capabilities
provided by telephone-based facsimile
| IFAX service
of ENUM |
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| SMTP Service Extension
for Content Negotiation |
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| Browsefax Integration |
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| Email Privacy Efforts |
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| History of Internet Mail |
A round of problematic
media activity triggered a request that I produce
a "personal" history
of Internet mail during the 1970s. The result was:
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A history of e-mail: Collaboration, innovation
and the birth of a system, The Washington Post,
20 March 2012; Local
copy / Post
original
The community activity surrounding this has resulted
in a nascent website:
Here is the background that prompted the invitation
to do my article:
A followup analysis:
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| Internet
Mail Architecture |
Formal specification of the current
email service.
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| Opinion:
Is It Time to Replace SMTP? |
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IPJ Magazine, Vol.10, No.2, June
2007 » html, cisco
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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...
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Minor revision, to prepare for elevation
to Draft Standard, draft-crocker-abnf-rfc2234bis-00,
9 Mar 05 » html, txt
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| Scope and Structure of
Internet Mail Addresses |
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| Mandatory MIME Security
Considered Harmful |
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| The
impact email work done at The Rand Corporation in the
mid-1970’s |
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Instant Messaging
and Presence |
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| Common Presence
and Instant Messaging (CPIM) |
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Navigating
RFCs:
Internet Technology Document Suites |
What is the set of current documents with
the technical details of a particular service?
Answering
this question can be daunting, especially when
the service has a long history, filled with formal
changes, enhancements, errata notes and esoteric
lore. This Document
Suite wiki provides a home
for collaborative, on-going efforts at recording
such information about popular Internet capabilities.
An Internet service is described by a collection
of specification and support documents, along with
informal commentary to guide development, deployment,
operations and use. This collection forms a Technology
Document Suite.
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| RFC
Editor Proposal: Executive Summary |
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| Nomcom
Enhancements: Improving the IETF leadership selection
process |
draft-crocker-ietf-nomcom-process
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| IETF
Outcomes Wiki |
Developed a public wiki for community
assessment of standards produced by the IETF
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| 2009
ISOC Postel Award to CSNet |
At IETF-75 in Stockholm, on 29 July
2009, ISOC gave the Postel Award to CSNet,
"the research networking effort that during
the early 1980s provided the critical bridge from
the original research undertaken through the ARPANET
to the modern Internet."
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BBC4
Radio, Today Programme 3-part series: Online Crime
Mine was the final
segment. |
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Cybercrime, Guillaume
Lovet, Fortinet, 27 Dec 2006 » mp3
audio
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Spam, Richard Cox, The
Spamhaus Project , 28 Dec 2006 » mp3
audio
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Thoughts on the Future of
the Internet, Dave Crocker, BBIW,29
Dec 2006 » pdf
text, » mp3
audio
Prediction realized: » Beating
Traffic By Joining the Network,
Washington Post, Mar 2008.
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| Media
Format Choices for RFCs |
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| Preserve and Enhance:
Balancing Goals for the Internet |
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| 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:
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My review of it The Internet
Protocol Journal - Volume 5, Number 4, Cisco, January,
2003 » html
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Mueller response and my follow-up The
Internet Protocol Journal - Volume 6, Number 1,
Cisco » html
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| 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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