EQUAL WORKSHOP: Wednesday 09 December 2009
Introduction
Following ideas discussed in TF-MSP meetings over the past 12 months, it was agreed to consult with the TERENA community to see if there was sufficient interest in arranging a one day workshop on the topic of Improving the Quality of Email Services. Staff of many NRENs have expressed an interest in such a workshop.
The workshop included presentations on community members approaches for spam reduction, technologies and practices and concluded with a discussion on the way forward.
Workshop Report
Notes of the workshop prepared by John DYER. These notes contain a list of actions that might be undertaken by a TERENA ad-hoc group working on the topic of Improving the Quality of E-mail Services.
These include:
- Continued exchange of information between NRENs
- Considering a community-wide whitelist / blacklist exchange or system
- Establishing and recommending: Common Policies; Standards and Best Practice
- Possible joint-NREN procurement of commercial offerings
- Exploring what can be done in respect of the proliferation of private information online
- Seeking community membership of MAAWG
- Maintaining the EQUAL email distribution list and hosting online material about the activity either on the TERENA website or the secure wiki hosted by TERENA
Workshop Agenda
- Welcome and Introductions
- Objectives of the Workshop
- Presentations
- SURFnet - Paul Dekkers, SURF-mailfilter
- RedIRIS - Jesus Sanz de las Heras, Reputation list, spam-trap, RACE
- RedIRIS - Francisco Monserrat, IRIS RBL
- RedIRIS - Jaime Perez, Reputation Systems work item inside Terena: sharing reputation applied to e-mail
- RENATER - Jerome Durand, RENATER antispam service
- UvA - JP Velders, DNS whitelists for e-mail usage
- TERENA - Dick Visser, Important and relevant for e-mail systems
- UNINETT - Magnus Stromdal, Lessons learned from operating Mail Dike
- ETH - David Bruce McLaughlin, Open Source Mail Filtering at the ETH Zurich
- CISCO - Eliot Lear, Need and methods to improve confidence in Email
- Discussion on how to progress the topic
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