Mike and LIR members, At 3:13 pm +0100 2/1/98, Mike Norris wrote:
The below is a belated summary of the the discussion of spamming on the lir-wg list soon after RIPE 28. I'm copying it to John Martin of TERENA as input to the BoF he is kindly organising during RIPE 29 later this month.
Many thanks for this. [N.B. I'm sure most of you already know, but for those that didn't, there was also a BoF at the last IETF. Results can be found at: http://www.imc.org/ietf-ube-bof/ ]
It is difficult, having seen the range of opinions expressed, to see a consensus about concerted action involving intervention in the mail transport mechanism, even in the European region. of spammers and dynamically blocking their routes, both of which are technically possible and already implemented in places.
However, it appears that many of us have been thinking the same thing for some time: the time for at least *some* deployment is here. The purpose of the BoF we proposed is to look at deployment of *existing* measures, as judging by conversations I have had with people, they can't afford to experiment with new-fangled anti-spam measures but, on the other hand, many are confounded by the myriad of tools available. If we can agree, therefore, I would like us to try to engineer this BoF towards some achievable short-term goals. [But then the purpose of having this BoF in the first place is to determine if this is feasible or not ;-) ] I'll produce a draft agenda real soon but in the meantime, any suggestions are more than welcome. Regards, John