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IETF Forms Anti-Spam Research Group to Address Email Spam Challenges

Underscoring growing concern over spam, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has created a new Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) that aims to put unsolicited commercial e-mail in its crosshairs by setting standards for spam detection and potential legislation. . . .. Underscoring growing concern over spam, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has created a new Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) that aims to put unsolicited commercial e-mail in its crosshairs by setting standards for spam detection and potential legislation. "We decided to go ahead now because it's clear that spam has become a serious problem for organizations," ASRG Chair Paul Judge said Friday. Judge, who is also the director of research and development at e-mail security firm CipherTrust Inc., added that while there are a patchwork of spam-fighting tools already available, the industry has yet to take a systematic approach to the problem. The anti-spam group will work within the organization' s Internet Research Task Force and will investigate whether a single architecture can be implemented that will allow e-mail receivers to express their consent and, more importantly, lack of consent for certain communications. This approach is due to the fact that everyone's definition of spam is different, the group said, making e-mail a consent-based communication. The link for this article located at IT World is no longer available. . Highlighting increasing alarm about unsolicited messages, IETF establishes a new Email Integrity Task Force aimed at enhancing standards.. Anti-Spam Research Group, Email Consent, Spam Legislation, IETF Standards. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Mar 05, 2003 • LinuxSecurity.com Team Security Projects