New anti-spam group formed
StopSpamAlliance unites international bodies.
A group of international agencies and organisations have teamed up to launch
StopSpamAlliance.org, designed to be a centralised base for data and
resources in the fight against junk email.
The alliance includes Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), a forum promoting economic growth and free
trade in the Asia-Pacific region, with 21 member states; the Contact Network of Spam Authorities (CNSA), an
information-sharing initiative focusing on spam, formed by the European Union; the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU), a standards and regulatory body founded in 1865 and now part of the United Nations; the
London Action Plan (LAP), a global network of consumer protection and regulatory bodies; the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an international forum promoting good governance
and market economies, with 30 member countries; and the Seoul/Melbourne Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), an
information-exchange system founded jointly by Australian and Korean telecommunications agencies.
The new alliance results in part from talks held in Tunis last year by the World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS), and is launched as part of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) inaugural meeting taking
place this week. As part of the meeting, the OECD is running a workshop on anti-spam techniques, aimed at
educating ISPs in how best to block the flow of spam emails.
01 November 2006
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