Internet and e-mail policy and practice including Notes on Internet E-mail

←2015→ Months Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Click the comments link on any story to see comments or add your own. Subscribe to this blog RSS feed

Home 27 Oct 2015 What's ARC? Email DMARC is an anti-phishing technique that AOL and Yahoo repurposed last year to help them deal with the consequences of spam to (and apparently from) addresses in stolen address books. Since DMARC cannot tell mail sent through complex paths like mailing lists from phishes, this had the unfortunate side effect of screwing up nearly every discussion list on the planet. Last week the DMARC group published a proposal called ARC, for Authenticated Received Chain, that is intended to mitigate the damage. What is it, and how likely is it to work? See more ...   posted at: 23:43 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/arc1.html 11 Oct 2015 That was quick ICANN ICANN recently placed a new page on their web site that tracks gTLD registries that are shutting down. It already has an entry, .DOOSAN. See more ...   posted at: 12:22 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/nodoosan.html 10 Oct 2015 An alternative to CCWG Overreach ICANN ICANN is in the midst (I wouldn't yet say the middle) of its transition from oversight by the US Department of Commerce to oversight by something else. A Cross Community Working Group on Accountability delivered a long report in August that proposes a new oversight structure for ICANN. But it has the practical problem that the ICANN board really, really hates it. Having looked at it, I can't entirely blame them. See more ...   posted at: 01:03 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/blobplus.html

Topics Copyright Law - 30 Email - 228 ICANN - 128 Internet - 73 Money - 31 Security - 4 My other sites Who is this guy? Airline ticket info Taughannock Networks Other blogs CAUCE Bulk Domain Registrations Fueling Unpaid Toll Scams 23 days ago A keen grasp of the obvious Italian Apple Cake 956 days ago Related sites Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Network Abuse Clearinghouse My Mastodon feed

© 2005-2024 John R. Levine.
CAN SPAM address harvesting notice: the operator of this website will not give, sell, or otherwise transfer addresses maintained by this website to any other party for the purposes of initiating, or enabling others to initiate, electronic mail messages.