Folks, Howdy. I am writing to you on behalf of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group <http://maawg.org>. The purpose of this note is to solicit Nanog participant's comments on our recent, draft Email Senders’ Best Communications Practices document, prior to its official release. The draft is located at <http://www.maawg.org/about/MAAWG_Senders_BCP>. We want to revise the draft, based on insights from a broad range of interested and knowledgeable parties. We also are interested in exploring the document’s being co-sponsored under the auspices of MAAWG and RIPE. If you were not aware of MAAWG, the group’s focus is on preserving electronic messaging from online exploits and abuse, with the goal of enhancing usertrust and confidence, while ensuring the deliverability of legitimate messages.The Senders BCP effort is one of the initiatives that MAAWG is pursuing, to reduce messaging abuse while enabling legitimate messages to obtain unimpeded delivery. MAAWG membership is diverse and the referenced content reflects the perspectives of both leading email senders and receivers. We believe that conformance with the Senders BCP will improve deliverability for legitimate messages, yet lay a substantial foundation for successful dispute resolution. We believe this document reflects a global perspective on successful messaging and welcome any insights that can further detail or delineate best practices for bulk senders. At your convenience, but prior to our comments deadline of 12/22/06, please provide specific edits and comments about the BCP to: senderbcp@maawg.org. Thank you for your consideration of this important effort. I look forward to your feedback. /d ps. You will no doubt guess that the above is a standardized letter. We wanted to give a consistent message to those we are soliciting for comment. On reflection, I note that a) it is unsolicited, b) it is being sent in bulk, and c) it requests readers to take action. With any luck, it won't be classed as spam, and the reason will be more than "Dave is a good guy" or the like. But I do find myself wondering about boundary conditions... -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net