Email Deliverability Summit II Update

Fri Oct 17 19:56:37 UTC 2003

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/
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 Dave Crocker <dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com>
 Brandenburg InternetWorking <www.brandenburg.com>
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