Email Deliverability Summit II Update

Fri Oct 17 16:52:10 UTC 2003

I've had so many people over the past few weeks ask me for an update 
as to how Email Deliverability Summit II went that I thought I really 
ought to at least point to some links, which is exactly what I'm 
going to do, in the interest of not taking up list bandwidth.

In short, it was absolutely amazing.  Twenty CEOs or other executive 
decision-makers from ISPs, spam-filtering companies, and other email 
receivers (some of them on this list), and twenty from large email 
sending companies, in a room at a roundtable for 8 solid hours - and 
we got a *lot* accomplished.

Those accomplishments include the promulgation and announcement of 5 
new industry standards for both email senders and receivers (this is 
up at http://www.isipp.com/standards.php), the presentation of EDDB - 
which is a receivers/senders contact information database (it was 
actually Damian's request which reminded me to post about this - EDDB 
allows participants to log in and get the appropriate contact 
information for the sender or receiver in question - information 
about EDDB is at http://www.isipp.com/eddb.php), and the announcement 
of a new cross-industry working group - the Email Processing Industry 
Alliance (EPIA), which will carry on with the work started at Summits 
I and II (if you'd like information about being involved as a 
receiver, contact Mark Herrick of RoadRunner at markh at va.rr.com, or 
Craig Hughes of SpamAssassin Open Source at craig-hughes at isipp.com;  
senders should contact Ian Oxman at oxmani at rappdigital.com).

Finally, ISIPP announced it's upcoming Spam and the Law conference  
(http://www.isipp.com/events.php).

I'd also like to take this opportunity to mention that independent of 
ISIPP I am working on a new email deliverability product which allows 
senders and receivers to preauthorize and prevalidate (and even 
preschedule) the senders' legitimate bulk mailings.  We're currently 
in beta, and I'd welcome any of you to participate in the beta test 
(which of course is free, and once we get into commercial production 
we expect to offer *deep* discounts to beta testers).  Anyone who 
would like more information should contact me directly.

Anne

Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
President & CEO
Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy