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EQUAL Workshop Report: Enhancing Email Services Quality

This report outlines the EQUAL Workshop held on 9th December 2009 in Amsterdam, focusing on improving the quality of email services. The workshop featured presentations from industry experts and discussions on enhancing collaboration, sharing knowledge, and setting common standards for email systems. The attendees represented 15 countries and emphasized the need for community-wide initiatives to combat spam, improve email filtering, and enhance email security. Concrete ideas and proposals were discussed to advance email service quality within the research and education community. The report highlights the importance of continued collaboration and future steps for the EQUAL initiative.

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EQUAL Workshop Report: Enhancing Email Services Quality

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  1. Report on EQUAL WorkshopImproving the Quality of Email Services9 December 2009UvA AMSTERDAM TF-MSP 4th February 2010 John DYER TERENA

  2. Why EQUAL? • TF-MSP – September 2008 • RedIRIS Reputation Block List • TF-MSP February 2009 • RedIRIS, SURFnet; UNINETT; BELNET; GARR; GRNET; JANET thought to be interested • Idea of a workshop discussed • Summer 2009 • Panel phone conferences • TF-MSP, October 2009 • EQUAL WORKSHOP announced • EQUAL WORKSHOP, UvA, 9 December 2009

  3. Workshop Programme • 36 Attendees representing 15 countries • 10 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: • 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 Strømdal,Lessons learned from operating Mail Dike • ETH - David Bruce McLaughlin,Open Source Mail Filtering at the ETH-Z • CISCO – Eliot Lear,Need and methods to improve confidence in Email • Real enthusiasm and interest to work together • Email distribution list has 47 members

  4. Highlights & Principals • genuine surprise about the amount of work that is currently underway in our community • strong desire to capitalise on all the knowledge and expertise by sharing and collaborating • would best be achieved under the auspices of TERENA • TF-EMC2, TF-CSIRT, TF-MOBILITY and TF-MSP • initially take place in an ad-hoc EQUAL group

  5. Concrete Ideas • Continued exchange of information between NRENs • Considering a community-wide white-list / 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

  6. The way forward • Video Conference • core members of EQUAL • Take concrete items and explore • Make a formal proposal for EQUAL work • Birds of a Feather at TNC 2010 • Tuesday 1st June 18:00 – 20:00 Related Meetings: • TF-EMC2 and TF-MOBILITY, 16-18 February 2010, Vienna, Austria • MAAWG, 8-10 June 2010, Barcelona, Spain

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