Industry Group Supports Sender Policy Framework to Stop Spam

The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), an industry group that includes leading carriers and ISPs, announced that its members will work toward adopting common standards for the deployment of sender authentication technologies.



Members of the MAAWG technical committee are evaluating the proposals left following the MARID working group, disbanded earlier this year by the IETF. Already, MAAWG technical committee members have begun deploying the Sender Policy Framework proposal for validating the return address of an email message (commonly known as SPF Classic), the latest proposal on SenderID and Client SMTP Validation (CSV). MAAWG will share and discuss the results of this deployment in the upcoming weeks and months.



MAAWG members have also committed to continuing their collaboration efforts to implement additional messaging security measures, such as the use of cryptographic signatures, reputation systems and accreditation agencies and accountability systems.



MAAWG Members include America Online, Bell Canada, BellSouth, Charter Communications, Cloudmark, Cox, EarthLink, France Telecom, Goodmail Systems, Openwave Systems, Verizon, Internet Initiative Japan, IronPort, Sprint, and others. http://www.maawg.org/