Just a quick update on what is happening here.
In May, Industry Canada established a task force to
implement an action plan to deal with the spam problem. The
task force was given a year to complete its work.
Last Friday, the task force held a roundtable meeting among
stakeholders.
Perhaps of greatest significance is the publication of a
document titled:
Recommended Best Practices for Internet Service Providers
and Other Network Operators
http://e-com.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inecic-ceac.nsf/vwapj/Best%20
Practices.pdf/$file/Best%20Practices.pdf
|Recommendation #1
|All Canadian registrants and hosts of domain names should
|publish Sender Policy Framework (SPF) information within
|their respective Domain Name Server (DNS) zone files as
|soon as possible.
|
|The purpose of email sender authentication is to reduce
|domain name spoofing in email thereby reducing the
|incidents of spamming and phishing attempts.
|
|The methods for sender authentication are continuing to
|develop within the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).
|
|At this point in time the SPF classic (SPFv1) proposal is
|the most technically mature and widely deployed sender
|authentication scheme.
|
|This recommendation does not preclude the use of other
|proposals that will authenticate e-mail messages (e.g.,
|Sender-ID, Domain Keys, SPF, Identified Internet Mail,
|etc.). Standards will continue to develop within the
|industry.
|
http://e-com.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inecic-ceac.nsf/vwapj/Best%20
Practices.pdf/$file/Best%20Practices.pdf
You can read more about the roundtable meeting here:
http://e-com.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inecic-ceac.nsf/en/gv00267e.h
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John
John Glube
Toronto, Canada
http://www.trusted-email-sender.com
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