BCP 134, RFC 5068 on Email Submission Operations: Access and Accountability Requirements

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        BCP 134        
        RFC 5068

        Title:      Email Submission Operations: Access and 
                    Accountability Requirements 
        Author:     C. Hutzler, D. Crocker,
                    P. Resnick, E. Allman,
                    T. Finch
        Status:     Best Current Practice
        Date:       November 2007
        Mailbox:    cdhutzler@aol.com, 
                    dcrocker@bbiw.net, 
                    presnick@qualcomm.com, eric+ietf-smtp@sendmail.org, 
                    dot@dotat.at
        Pages:      12
        Characters: 24481
        Updates:    
        See-Also:   BCP0134

        I-D Tag:    draft-hutzler-spamops-08.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5068.txt

Email has become a popular distribution service for a variety of
socially unacceptable, mass-effect purposes.  The most obvious ones
include spam and worms.  This note recommends conventions for the
operation of email submission and transport services between
independent operators, such as enterprises and Internet Service
Providers.  Its goal is to improve lines of accountability for
controlling abusive uses of the Internet mail service.  To this end,
this document offers recommendations for constructive operational
policies between independent operators of email submission and
transmission services.

Email authentication technologies are aimed at providing assurances
and traceability between internetworked networks.  In many email
services, the weakest link in the chain of assurances is initial
submission of a message.  This document offers recommendations for
constructive operational policies for this first step of email
sending, the submission (or posting) of email into the transmission
network.  Relaying and delivery entail policies that occur subsequent
to submission and are outside the scope of this document.  This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the
Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements.

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