A new group will try to reconcile competing methods to thwart spam with a kind of caller ID for e-mail.

The Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) early this month formed a subcommittee to hammer out differences between a number of competing protocols that all aim to do the same thing: verify that e-mail senders are who they say they are.

With the way things work now under the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), there is no widespread method for that kind of verification. That has led some to calls for the revision or replacement of the ubiquitous protocol. Read Article >> Posted by: DTB at 1:31 PM  |  Permalink