The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Email Submission Operations: Access and Accountability Requirements ' <draft-hutzler-spamops-08.txt> as a BCP This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Dan Romascanu. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hutzler-spamops-08.txt Technical Summary Email has become a popular distribution service for a variety of socially unacceptable, mass-effect purposes. The most obvious ones include spam and worms. This note recommends conventions for the operation of email submission and transport services between independent operators, suchas enterprises and Internet Service Providers. Its goal is to improve lines of accountability for controlling abusive uses of the Internet mail service. Consequently the document offers recommendations for constructive operational policies between independent operators of email transmission services. With the recent advent of email authentication technologies aimed at providing assurances and traceability between internetworked networks, the authors recognized that the initial submission of a message became the weakest link. Consequently, the document offers recommendations for constructive operational policies for the first step of email sending, the submission (or posting) of email into the transmission network. Relaying and delivery entail policies that occur subsequent to submission and are outside the scope of this document. Working Group Summary Although formally an Independent submission, the document authors represent extensive email technical and operations experience and have extensively circulated successive versions of the draft among the Internet mail technical and operations communities. The document has synthesized that considerable body of review. Protocol Quality The document has been extensively reviewed and has received positive feedback as being a useful contribution to the body of Internet Mail practices documents. It underwent two IETF Last Calls in 2005 and 2007 and was reviewed by Bert Wijnen and Dan Romascanu for the IESG and by Marshall Rose and Rand Wacker for the APPS Area. Note to RFC Editor RFC Editor, please make the following edits before publication: 1. In the Abstract section delete: 'The document seeks BCP status. Comments and discussion of this document should be addressed to the ietf-smtp@imc.org mailing list.' 2. In the Introduction section: OLD: They have had varying effect and vastly different impacts on users and on the Internet mail infrastructure. NEW: The results have been mixed, at best. 3. Section 3.2 OLD: The ordering of that list SHOULD try the SUBMISSION port 587 first. NEW: The SUBMISSION port 587 SHOULD be placed first in the list. 4. Section 6 title OLD: 6. Consideration NEW: 6. Considerations _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
