SIP and Spam

Status: Sipping draft 04, in WGLC
Date of last update: February 26, 2007
Authors: J. Rosenberg, C. Jennings
Current Document: draft-ietf-sipping-spam-04 [.txt]
Summary: Spam, defined as the transmission of bulk unsolicited messages, has plagued Internet email. Unfortunately, spam is not limited to email. It can affect any system that enables user to user communications. The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) defines a system for user to user multimedia communications. Therefore, it is susceptible to spam, just as email is. In this document, we analyze the problem of spam in SIP. We first identify the ways in which the problem is the same and the ways in which it is different from email. We then examine the various possible solutions that have been discussed for email and consider their applicability to SIP. Discussions on this draft should be directed at sipping@ietf.org.
Archive of older drafts:
  1. draft-ietf-sipping-spam-03 [.txt], October 22, 2006
  2. draft-ietf-sipping-spam-02 [.txt], March 6, 2006
  3. draft-ietf-sipping-spam-01 [.txt], July 17, 2005
  4. draft-ietf-sipping-spam-00 [.txt], February 13, 2005
  5. draft-rosenberg-sipping-spam-01 [.txt], October 23, 2004
  6. draft-rosenberg-sipping-spam-00 [.txt], July 11, 2004

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