RE: 3. Requirements - Anonymity (was Re: FW: [Asrg] 0. General)

["Eric Dean" <eric@purespeed.com>]

Agreed..the most annoying spam is when they impersonate myself 8-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asrg-admin@ietf.org [mailto:asrg-admin@ietf.org] On 
> Behalf Of Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 7:09 PM
> To: 'Eric Dean'; 'Alan DeKok'; asrg@ietf.org
> Subject: RE: 3. Requirements - Anonymity (was Re: FW: [Asrg] 
> 0. General) 
> 
> 
> > I agree.  RMX would merely allow for me to protect my domain from 
> > getting spoofed.  By no means is it an anti-spam method.
> 
> RMX and SPF do not prevent all spam but they do have the 
> potential to eliminate impersonation spam (aka Joe Jobbing). 
> This type of spam is particularly serious because it has been 
> used in a series of very successful identity theft schemes. 
> These include the persistent 'update your ebay/amazon/paypal 
> account solicitations and recently a series of emails 
> impersonating several banks.
> 
> Impersonation spam creates considerable inconvenience and 
> cost for the impersonation victim. In addition to the cost of 
> fielding complaints about the spam the victim's reputation is 
> damaged. In many cases the impersonator may steal business 
> from the victim (anti-virus software spam, domain name 
> registration spam). It is not unusual for a spam to be 
> correct in every detail except for the telephone number to 
> contact to give payment.
> 
> 
> Certainly it is possible and useful to go further than IP 
> address/Domain Name verification of the type supported in 
> RMX/SPF. But this does invalidate RMX/SPF infrastructure as a 
> first step. Nor is it tenable to claim that RMX/SPF are 
> insufficient and then claim that certificate based schemes 
> are unnecessary.
> 
> 
> 
> 	Phill
> 
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