Standards-Related
The following is a list of standards-related publications that I authored or co-authored (majority of them are spam or ASRG related). For the rest of my publications, please see the main publications page.
In Progress
- “An Extensible Format for Email Feedback Reports” a.k.a. “Abuse Reporting Format (ARF)”; April 2005-present (work in progress) – homepage, archive of previous versions
- I am not longer currently in charge of editing this document, it is now edited by Murray S. Kucherawy of SendMail, Inc. His contact information appears in the draft.
- “Guidelines for Management of DNS Blacklists for Email” (Editor), With Matt Sergeant and Chris Lewis, Anti-Spam Research Group / IRTF; April 2004;
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NOTE: I am no longer involved with this but someone else has taken
over the editing process - also see the current version here
2005
- RFC 4180: “Common Format and MIME Type for CSV Files”, Individual Submission; October 2005; Archive of previous versions
- Internet-Draft: “Distributed Black/White Lists”, With Andy Newton, Individual Submission; February 2005 (EXPIRED)
2004
- Internet Draft: “Role of the IETF in the Fight against the Spam Problem”, Anti-Spam Research Group / IRTF; March 13, 2004 (UNPUBLISHED)
- Internet Draft: “Some of the Causes of the Spam Problem and Comparisons to Other Messaging Systems”, Anti-Spam Research Group / IRTF; January 20, 2004 (UNPUBLISHED)
2003
- “Consent Framework for Fighting Spam”, Anti-Spam Research Group / IRTF; October 31st, 2003 (HISTORICAL)
- Internet Draft: “Challenge / Response Interworking (CRI) Framework for Challenge / Response Email Systems”, with Eric Dean; Anti-Spam Research Group / IRTF; September 23, 2003 (EXPIRED)
- “Intellectual Property Rights in Anti-Spam Technologies”, Anti-Spam Research Group / IRTF; July 8th, 2003 (HISTORICAL)









