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Report on EQUAL Workshop Improving the Quality of Email Services 9 December 2009 UvA AMSTERDAM. TF-MSP 4 th February 2010 John DYER TERENA. Why EQUAL?. TF-MSP – September 2008 RedIRIS Reputation Block List TF-MSP February 2009
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Report on EQUAL WorkshopImproving the Quality of Email Services9 December 2009UvA AMSTERDAM TF-MSP 4th February 2010 John DYER TERENA
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
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
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
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
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