Announcement: Deployment of anti-spam measures BoF Date: Wednesday 28th January 14:00-17:00 Convenor: John Martin Location: Park Plaza Hotel, Rokin, Amsterdam Unsolicited Commercial Email, (UCE or "spam" as it is more colloquially known), is a well known and established problem on the internet today. Many users now regularly receive 10's of these messages per day - sometimes more. Anti-spam measures range from blocking of IP addresses at gateways / hubs to sophisticated "learning" algorithms which operate at the user end. However, these measures are often not straightforward and are not, lamentably, very widely deployed. The purpose of this BoF is to determine whether effective measures can be taken to deploy these measures more widely within our constituency and will concentrate on a managable subset - email-spam and deployment of anti-spam measures - rather than the wider problems or issues (which are discussed elsewhere). DRAFT Agenda 1. Welcome and Introductions 2. Brief Overview of anti-spam (email-only) mechanisms* - particular emphasis on maximum effect for least pain 3. Determination of possible wide-scale deployment mechanisms - measures most likely to succeed - how to deploy? 4. What next? - Formation of more permanent working group? - Longer-term plans 5. A.O.B 6. Close. The meeting is a joint TERENA / RIPE iniative and is open to all. Please send comments / suggestions to me ASAP. Regards, John (*For information about anti-spam measures, see http://spam.abuse.net/)