The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group to Evaluate and Recommend E-Mail Authentication Protocols
The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), a group of communications and technology companies committed to solving spam, viruses and other forms of messaging abuse, announced today that its members will work toward adopting common standards for the deployment of sender authentication technologies.
Members of the MAAWG technical committee are evaluating the proposals left following the MARID working group, disbanded earlier this year by the IETF. Already, MAAWG technical committee members have begun deploying the Sender Policy Framework proposal for validating the return address of an email message (commonly known as SPF Classic), the latest proposal on SenderID and Client SMTP Validation (CSV). MAAWG will share and discuss the results of this deployment in the upcoming weeks and months.
MAAWG members have also committed to continuing their collaboration efforts to implement additional messaging security measures, such as the use of cryptographic signatures, reputation systems and accreditation agencies and accountability systems.
"Today's announcement shows that our industry is committed to working together to evaluate, develop and deploy authentication standards that can help alleviate the ongoing spam and phishing menace," said Tripp Cox, chief technology officer of EarthLink and co-chair of MAAWG's Technology Subcommittee. "MAAWG members will work collaboratively to share data and results that can help identify and refine the best authentication technology solutions for protecting consumers' inboxes."
For more information on MAAWG, please visit http://www.maawg.org/.
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