Networking for the Third Millennium

March 1st, 2021

Web log

Our notes on Internet email and tech policy.

The weblog was last updated at 2:24 pm, October 14th, 2020.

Most recent entries:

• Why the Internet is Not Like a Railroad
• The good old days in the cryptography wars
• My, that's a lot of mail

Presentation slides

Slides from recent conference and meeting presentatations

• Federal Trade Commission Authentication Summit keynote, at the FTC, 9 November 2004
• Anti-Spam Research Group chair's plenary presentation at the 60th Internet Engineering Task Force meeting (San Diego, 5 August 2004)
• International Concerns Regarding Spam: A View from the U.N. WSIS Meeting, and What 'Identity' Means in an International Online World at ISIPP's "International Spam Law and Policies" conference (San Francisco, 29 July 2004)
• Invited talk at the International Telecommunications Union World Symposium on the Internet Society (Geneva, 7 July 2004)

White paper series

In-depth looks at e-mail technology and policy topics.

Available now

1. An overview of e-postage
2. Technical approaches to spam
3. Experiences with greylisting (presented at the 2005 Conference on E-mail and Spam)

In preparation

3. Mail server best practices
4. Signed bounce addresses to deter spoofing

Related papers

• Comments on E-mail Authentication, prepared for the Federal Trade Commission E-mail Authentication Summit on November 9-10, 2004.
• Comments on spyware, prepared for the Federal Trade Commission Spyware workshop, and for testimony at the Subcommittee on Communications of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for consideration during their hearing on S.2145, the SPY BLOCK Act, on March 23, 2004.

Mini-Papers

A series of informal one or two page notes on e-mail topics. Most are described in the weblog.

24 March 2008

• E-mail address forgery
• Problems with Designated Sender
• Selective Sender
• Explaining the Spam Problem to Marketers