Hector Santos wrote:
then we are not going to be oblivous to this new federal requirement for
spammers and for mail systems to help make it happen. The FEDs have given
the IETF 18 months (now 15 months) to define the IETF standards that the
spammers must comply with.
The phrase "The FEDs have given the IETF 18 months" is a bit misleading.
In my conversations with people at the FTC on behalf of the ASRG, it is
very clear to them that the FTC is responsible for drafting this report
and any suggested plans/standards for labeling spam NOT the IETF. In
their understanding, the intent of the Act is that anything the
Commission will come up with does not break existing IETF standards. So
the more correct phrase would be that Congress gave the FTC 18 months.
In any case, this is way out of scope for this list.
Yakov