Re: [anti-spam-wg] Proposed New Charter

[Dave Crocker dhc@localhost]

Greetings,



Brian Nisbet wrote:
>   To reflect this changing Internet, it was proposed at
> RIPE 55 that the Anti-Spam Working Group widen its focus to
> include all relevant kinds of network level abuse.  It is important
> to note that areas such as cybersquatting or hosting illegal
> content are not seen to be part of the remit of the working group.


Although the second sentence provides some constraint, by example, it would 
probably be helpful to give a more affirmative description of what is in 
scope.  The term "network level" is not intuitive (to me).  For example, I 
start wondering whether work on routing protocols is in scope.  I suspect it 
is not.

Given that this is RIPE and this is related to spam, I'll make some guesses 
that this is intended to be constrained to operational issues:

   Email transport abuse, covering malicious addressing, traffic load, or 
content during cross-net transfers.

   Email exchange abuse (meant to be somewhat broader than 'transport', such 
as some kinds of content, perhaps?)

   Messaging transport/exchange abuse (include IM?)

   Human Interaction abuse (include VOIP SPIT, etc.)


Just guessing...

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net