ASRG Research Agenda
"The purpose of the ASRG is to understand the problem and collectively propose and evaluate solutions to the problem."
The understanding phase includes:
1. inventory of problems work
http://www.irtf.org/asrg/draft-asrg-inventory-of-problems.txt
2. the analysis and characterization work
2.a. Spam Measurements.
2.a.1. Analysis of Actual Spam Data
2.a.2 User Survey
Ted Gavin has volunteered to conduct this.
2.b. Public Trace Data
The proposal phase includes:
Foundation:
3. requirements document
http://www.irtf.org/asrg/draft-irtf-asrg-requirements-xx-01.txt
4. Survey of solutions
4.a. Taxonomy.
http://www.irtf.org/asrg/draft-asrg-taxonomy-anti-spam-systems.txt
4.b. Survey. Summarize set of solutions and place into taxonomy.
4.c Bibliography of spam research related work. Owner: Frank de Lange?4.d. consent framework document
http://www.solidmatrix.com/research/asrg/asrg-consent-framework.html
5. identification of standardization requirements
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crocker-spam-techconsider-02.txt
Proposals:
6. proposals of new solutions
See the survey of proposals. Some proposals need to be revisited with regard to the requirements, the evaluation model, and the consent framework. A template for proposals would also be useful.
7. Best Practices documents
7.a. End-users
7.b. Mail administrators.
7.c. Mass Mailers
The evaluation phase includes:
8. Evaluation of proposals
8.a. creating an evaluation model
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crocker-spam-techconsider-02.txt
8.b. evaluation of the solutions (it seems to be more efficient to require this as part of proposals)