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The research agenda outlines specific areas that the ASRG is currently researching, while the charter outlines broader areas. If you want to want to suggest changes to the agenda, please contact the ASRG chairs.

1. PROBLEM ANALYSIS.
   1. Inventory of Problems - analysis of spam-related problems.
   2. Analysis of Current Solutions - inventory and analysis of current anti-spam solutions, their weaknesses and effectiveness.
   3. Analysis of Spam - analysis of persistent patterns in spam and spammer behavior that can be used to improve existing and propose new solutions.
   
   
2. IMPROVING EXISTING SOLUTIONS.
   1. Best Current Practices for Spam Control - including email admins, end users, MTA developers, blacklist operators, etc..
   2. Filtering Standards - dynamic updates, standard headers for MTAs, etc.
   3. Abuse Reporting Standards - research into common standards for exchanging information about network and email abuse.
   
   
3. PROPOSING NEW SOLUTIONS.
   1. Requirements and Evaluation Model - to be used for evaluation of proposed solutions.
   2. SMTP Session Verification - verification of the SMTP transaction (e.g. LMAP, etc.).
   3. Message Verification - verification of both the message headers and content (e.g. DK, Lumos, TEOS, etc.)