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APCAUCE

Asia Pacific Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email http://www.apcauce.org. APCAUCE. Spam – Worse in the Asiapac. Countries with scarce bandwidth It is sapped by spam and virus traffic Countries with lots of bandwidth Spam and viruses chew up lots more bandwidth

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APCAUCE

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  1. Asia Pacific Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email http://www.apcauce.org APCAUCE

  2. Spam – Worse in the Asiapac • Countries with scarce bandwidth • It is sapped by spam and virus traffic • Countries with lots of bandwidth • Spam and viruses chew up lots more bandwidth • ISPs don't have policies, SOPs on spam • Not many countries have antispam laws • Lots of countries have unaware users • Who also run pirated software • Which can't be patched, easily gets infected

  3. Long-term goalsInternational Cooperation • Identify and bring together clued people • Operators of email services • Antispam blocklists • MTA and antispam software developers • Clued internet users • Governments and regulators • Bring them together, to talk to each other and to people from the operator community • So we all meet at ops events like APRICOT

  4. History • Concept of APCAUCE in 2002 • BoF during APAN Shanghai (2002) • Prof Kilnam Chon and others. • Subsequent meetings at asiapac ops events • APRICOT, APAN and SANOG meetings • KL, Kathmandu, Pusan, Kyoto, Perth ... • Participation in other antispam conferences • Cooperation with other antispam groupings • London Action Plan, MAAWG, ITU, OECD..

  5. Latest Meeting – APRICOT 2006 • Regional Update Meeting - 2/26/2006 • Governments, Industry, Blocklists • Antispam Laws, Blocklists, Botnets .. keeping up to date with the situation and working together to do something about it. • http://wiki.apcauce.org/index.php/APCAUCE_2006 • Antispam conference track - 3/1/2006 • Email Authentication, Botnets, Antispam trends, Blocklist ops panel, Govt / ISP cooperation

  6. Public Policy • Reply to a questionnaire on a proposed antispam bill in Hong Kong • Spam Problems in Developing Countries • part of the OECD antispam toolkit • Paper on spam for UNDP/APDIP • Membership of the London Action Plan • similar to APCAUCE, but international members ... there'll be more.

  7. That's all folks ...... at least for now :) • We'd love to hear from you – the apcauce mailing list's out there but its a bit quiet right now. http://www.apcauce.org apcauce-discuss@apcauce.org

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