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	Title		: The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Spam
	Author(s)	: J. Rosenberg, C. Jennings
	Filename	: draft-rosenberg-sipping-spam-00.txt
	Pages		: 20
	Date		: 2004-7-12

Spam, defined as the transmission of bulk unsolicited messages, has
   plagued Internet email.  Unfortunately, spam is not limited to email.
   It can affect any system that enables user to user communications.
   The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) defines a system for user to
   user multimedia communications.  Therefore, it is susceptible to
   spam, just as email is.  In this document, we analyze the problem of
   spam in SIP.  We first identify the ways in which the problem is the
   same and the ways in which it is different from email.  We then
   examine the various possible solutions that have been discussed for
   email and consider their applicability to SIP.  Discussions on this
   draft should be directed at sipping@ietf.org.

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