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Abuse Reporting Standards
Analysis & Characterization
Best Current Practices
Filtering Standards
Identity, Authentication, and Reputation
Inventory of Problems
Message Verification
SMTP Session Verification
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Whenever work areas are defined in the agenda, and enough interest seems to exist with the ASRG, the industry and the larger Internet community in those areas, the chairs may convene smaller subgroups to research those areas away from the more general discussion on the main list. Most ASRG subgroups operate their own mailing lists, and have their own procedures and guidelines, which may vary from the main ASRG procedures. Each subgroup is headed by one or more coordinators, which are responsible for managing the subgroup, and reporting its progress on a regular basis to the main ASRG community.

Subgroups maybe closed or open, with public or private mail archives. All ASRG subgroups must report their progress to the community at large. Subgroups may have specific goals or do open-ended research. If you want to propose a subgroup, send a short proposal to the ASRG chairs or post it to the main discussion list.

• Analysis & Characterization (A&C) - applies empirical and quantitative methods to problems and issues surrounding spam.
• Identity, Authentication, and Reputation - looks at issues of the Identity of senders, of systems to Authenticate senders or domains, and Reputations systems that provide information to assist recipients in evaluating messages and senders.
• Abuse Reporting Standards - researches standard formats and protocols for reporting email and network abuse
• Best Current Practices (BCP) - researches and documents best practices for spam management
• Filtering Standards (FILTERING) - researches filtering standards for dynamic updating and interaction with MTAs
• Inventory of Problems - research problems with the current email architechture that facilitate spam
• Message Verification (MSG-VERIFY) - researches solutions dealing with verification and authetication in the email messages and headers
• SMTP Session Verification (SMTP-VERIFY) - researches solutions dealing with authetication and verification of the SMTP session

• CRI - Challenge/Response Internetworking - this subgroup has been folded into the SMTP Session Verification (SMTP-VERIFY) subgroup
• LMAP/RMX - Lightweight MTA Authentication Protocol / Reverse MX - this subgroup has been folded into the SMTP Session Verification (SMTP-VERIFY) subgroup

For those subgroups that have folded into other subgroups, see the homepage of the new subgroup for the archives.