Anne, APME> Those accomplishments include the promulgation and announcement of 5 APME> new industry standards for both email senders and receivers (this is APME> up at http://www.isipp.com/standards.php), the presentation of EDDB - APME> which is a receivers/senders contact information database (it was This is excellent work! A question is: how best to proceed? Email has rather complex dynamics. As Verisign has shown us for the DNS -- which has arguably simpler dynamics -- small changes can have big and unexpected effects. Usually those effects are nasty. Consequently, I am hoping that your group intends to bring these proposed standards to a venue that does open standards development and adoption, to ensure that the specifications are subject to broad review and commentary. d/ -- Dave Crocker <dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com> Brandenburg InternetWorking <www.brandenburg.com> Sunnyvale, CA USA <tel:+1.408.246.8253>