Network Working Group                                    Y. Shafranovich
Internet-Draft                            SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc.
Expires: November 29, 2007                                     J. Levine
                                                              P. Hoffman
                                                Domain Assurance Council
                                                            May 28, 2007


            An Extensible Format for Email Feedback Reports
               draft-shafranovich-feedback-report-02.txt

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Abstract

   This document defines an extensible format and MIME type that may be
   used by network operators to report feedback about received email to
   other parties.  This format is intended as a machine readable
   replacement for various existing report formats currently used in
   Internet email.




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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Intent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   3.  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   4.  Format of Email Feedback Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   5.  Format of 'message/feedback-report' Content Type . . . . . . .  5
     5.1.  Required Fields  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     5.2.  Optional Fields Appearing Once . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     5.3.  Optional Fields Appearing Multiple Times . . . . . . . . .  6
   6.  MIME Type Registration of message/feedback-report  . . . . . .  7
   7.  Extensibility  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   8.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     8.1.  Initial Values for the Header Names Registry . . . . . . .  9
     8.2.  Initial values for the "Feedback-Type" registry  . . . . . 11
   9.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   10. Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   Appendix A.  Appendix A - Sample Feedback Reports  . . . . . . . . 13
     A.1.  Simple Report for Email Abuse without Optional Headers . . 13
     A.2.  Opt-Out Report without Message Body  . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     A.3.  Full Report for Email Abuse with All Headers . . . . . . . 16
   Appendix B.  Status of This Document [To Be Removed Upon
                Publication]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
     B.1.  Discussion Venue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
     B.2.  Document Repository and Public Website . . . . . . . . . . 17
     B.3.  Document History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
     B.4.  Outstanding Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
   Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 21



















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1.  Introduction

   As the spam problem continues to expand and potential solutions
   evolve, network operators are increasingly exchanging abuse reports
   among themselves and other parties.  However, different operators
   have defined their own formats, and thus the receivers of these
   reports are forced to write custom software to interpret each.  In
   addition, many operators use various other report formats to provide
   non-abuse-related feedback about processed email.  This memo seeks to
   define a standard extensible format and the "message/feedback-report"
   MIME type for these reports in accordance with RFC 2048 [RFC2048].
   This format and content type is intended to be used within the scope
   of the framework of the "multipart/report" content type defined in
   RFC 3462 [RFC3462].  While there have been previous work in this
   area([STRADS_BCP] and [ASRG_ABUSE]), none of them have yet been
   sucessful.  It is hoped that this document will have a better fate.

   This format is intended primarily as an Abuse Reporting Format (ARF)
   for reporting email abuse but also includes support for direct
   feedback via end user mail clients, reports of some types of virus
   activity, and some similar issues.

   This document only defines the format and content type to be used for
   these reports.  Determination of where these reports should be sent,
   how trust among report generators and report recipients is
   established, and reports related to more than one message are outside
   the scope of this document.  It is assumed that best practices will
   evolve over time, and will be codified in future documents.

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].


2.  Intent

   The reports defined in this document are intended for several
   purposes:

   o  To inform ISPs about email abuse originating from or related to
      their networks

   o  To inform email service providers or other primarily outbound
      senders that there may be issues regarding their mail.  These
      issues include (but are not limited to) reports that the mail may
      be considered to be "spam" by a recipient of the message.





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   o  To inform email service provides about opt-out requests

   o  To advise providers that certify or otherwise make assertions
      about mail of recipient disagreement with the assertions.

   Please note that while the parent "multipart/report" content type
   defined in RFC 3462 is used for all kinds of administrative messages,
   this format is intended specifically for communications among
   providers regarding email abuse and related issues, and SHOULD NOT be
   used for other reports.


3.  Requirements

   The following requirements are necessary for feedback reports (the
   actual standard is defined in the next sections) :

   o  They must be both human and machine readable

   o  A copy of the original email message (body and headers) or the
      message headers must be enclosed in order to allow the receiver to
      properly handle the report.

   o  The machine readable section must provide ability for the report
      generators to share metadata with receivers,

   o  The format must be extensible.


4.  Format of Email Feedback Reports

   To satisfy the requirements, an email feedback report is defined as a
   MIME message with a top level MIME content type of "multipart/report"
   (as defined in RFC 3462).  The following apply:

   a.  The "report-type" parameter of "multipart/report" type is set to
       "feedback-report"

   b.  The first MIME part of the message contains a human readable
       description of the report and MUST be included.

   c.  The second MIME part of the message is a machine-readable section
       with the content type of "message/feedback-report" (defined later
       on in this document) and MUST be included.  This section is
       intended to convey metadata about the report in question that may
       not be readily available from the included email message itself.





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   d.  The third MIME part of the message contains either a full copy of
       the original message with a MIME content type of "message/rfc822"
       (as defined in RFC 2046 [RFC2046]) OR a copy of the headers from
       the original message with MIME content type of "text/
       rfc822-headers" (as defined in RFC 3462).  This part MUST be
       included (unlike RFC 3462).  While some operators may choose to
       modify or redact this portion for privacy or legal reasons, it is
       RECOMMENDED that the entire original email message be included
       without any modification.

   e.  Each feedback report MUST be related to only a SINGLE email
       message.  Summary and aggregate formats are outside the scope of
       this specification.

   f.  The subject line of the feedback report SHOULD be the same as the
       included email message and MAY include only the standard
       forwarding prefix used by MUAs such as "FW:".  (Many smaller
       operators using MUAs for abuse handling rely on the subject lines
       for processing.)


5.  Format of 'message/feedback-report' Content Type

   This content type provides a machine-readable section intended to let
   the report generator convey metadata to the report receiver.  The
   intent of this section is to convey information which may not be
   obvious or may not be easily extracted from the original email
   message or headers.

   The body of this content type consists of multiple "fields" formatted
   according to the ABNF of RFC 822 [RFC0822] header "fields".  This
   section defines the initial set of fields provided by this
   specification.  Additional fields may be registered according to the
   procedure described later on in this document.  Altough these fields
   have a syntax similar to those of mail message headers, they are
   semantically distinct; hence they SHOULD NOT be repeated in the
   header area of the message containing the report.  Note that these
   fields represent information that the receiver is asserting about the
   report in question, but are not necessarily verifiable.  Report
   receivers MUST NOT assume that these assertions are always accurate.

5.1.  Required Fields

   The following header fields are REQUIRED and MUST only appear once:

   o  "Feedback-Type:" - contains the type of feedback report (as
      defined in the corresponding IANA registry).  This is intended to
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      reports.

   o  "User-Agent:" - indicates the name and version of the software
      program that generated the report.  The format of this field MUST
      follow section 14.43 of RFC 2616 [RFC2616].  This field is for
      documentation only; there is no registry of user agent names or
      versions, and report receivers SHOULD NOT expect user agent names
      to belong to a known set.

   o  "Version" - indicates the version of specification that the report
      generator is using to generate the report.  The version number in
      this specification is set to "0.1".

5.2.  Optional Fields Appearing Once

   The following header fields are OPTIONAL and MUST NOT appear more
   than once:

   o  "Original-Mail-From:" - copy of the email address used in the MAIL
      FROM portion of the original SMTP transaction.  The format of this
      field is defined in section 4.1.1.2 of RFC 2821 [RFC2821].

   o  "Original-Rcpt-To:" - copy of the email address used in the RCPT
      TO portion of the original SMTP transaction.  The format of this
      field is defined in section 4.1.1.3 of RFC 2821.

   o  "Received-Date:" - indicates the date the original message was
      received by recipient system's MTA.  This field MUST BE formatted
      as per section 3.3 of RFC 2822 [RFC2822].

   o  "Source-IP:" - contains an IPv4 or IPv6 address of the MTA from
      which the original message was received.  IPv4 addresses are to be
      formatted in dot-decimal notation as currently used by the
      community.  IPv6 addresses MUST BE formatted as per section 2.2 of
      RFC 2373 [RFC2373].

5.3.  Optional Fields Appearing Multiple Times

   The following set of header fields are OPTIONAL and MAY appear more
   than once:

   o  "Authentication-Results:" - indicates the result of an
      authentication check run by the report generator.  The format of
      this field is is defined in draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header
      [AUTH-HEADER].  Report receivers should note that this field only
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   o  "Reported-Domain:" - indicates a domain name that the report
      generator believes to be relevant to the report.  Domain format is
      defined in section 2.3.1 of RFC 1035 [RFC1035].

   o  "Reported-URI:" - indicates a URI that the report generator
      believes to be relevant to the report.  URI format is defined in
      RFC 2396 [RFC2396].

   o  "Removal-Recipient:" - indicates the email address to be removed
      from the mailing list (MUST only be used with "opt-out" and "opt-
      out-list" types).  The format of this field is defined in section
      3.4.1 of RFC 2822.


6.  MIME Type Registration of message/feedback-report

   This section provides the media type registration application (as per
   RFC 2048 [RFC2048].

   To: ietf-types@iana.org

   Subject: Registration of MIME media types message/feedback-report

   MIME media type name: message

   MIME subtype name: feedback-report

   Required parameters: none

   Optional parameters: none

   Encoding considerations:

      "7bit" encoding is sufficient and MUST be used to maintain
      readability when viewed by non-MIME mail readers.

   Security considerations:

      See the "Security Considerations" of this document.

   Interoperability considerations: implementors MUST ignore any fields
   they do not support

   Published specification: this document

   Applications which use this media type: Abuse helpdesk software for
   ISPs, mail service bureaus, mail certifiers, and similar
   organizations



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   Additional information:

      Magic number(s): none

      File extension(s): none

      Macintosh File Type Code(s): none

   Person and email address to contact for further information:

      Yakov Shafranovich <ietf@shaftek.org>

   Intended usage: COMMON

   Author/Change controller: IESG


7.  Extensibility

   Like many other formats and protocols, this format may need to be
   extended over time to fit the ever changing landscape of the
   Internet.  Therefore, extensibility is provided via two IANA
   registries: one for feedback types and a second for header fields.
   The feedback type registry is to be used in conjunction with the
   "Feedback-Type" field above.  The header name registry is intended
   for registration of new metadata fields to be used in the machine
   readable portion (part 2) of this format.  Please note that version
   numbers do not change with new field registrations unless a new
   specification of this format is published.  Also note that all new
   field registrations can only registered as OPTIONAL fields.  Any new
   required fields REQUIRE a new version of this specification to be
   published.

   In order to encourage extensibility and interoperability of this
   format, implementors MUST ignore any fields they do not support.


8.  IANA Considerations

   IANA is requested to register MIME type "message/feedback-report"
   using the application provided in this document and setup two
   registries: one for header field names and a second for "Feedback-
   Type" values.  This section contains the templates used for
   registration of new entries in these registries and initial values.
   New registrations to these two registries MUST have approval by a
   Designated Expert in accordance with the Expert Review guidelines as
   described in RFC 2434 [RFC2434] (the expert should be appointed by
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   registered is considered OPTIONAL unless a new version of this
   specification is published.

   For the header name registry, the following MUST be provided in order
   to register a new header field name:

   1.  Name of the field being registered

   2.  Short description of the field

   3.  Whether the field can appear more than once

   4.  Which "Feedback-Type" types does this field apply to (or "any")

   5.  The RFC number (or Internet draft name) in which this header is
       registered

   If the header field being registered requires its own IANA registry,
   than the appropriate registry MUST be properly defined.

   For the feedback type registry, the following MUST be provided in
   order to register a new header field name:

   1.  Name of the feedback type being registered

   2.  Short description

   3.  The RFC number (or Internet draft name) in which this feedback
       type is registered

8.1.  Initial Values for the Header Names Registry

   The data below are populated from this document.  The RFC number used
   for registration of these values is this document.

   Field Name: Authentication-Results
   Description: results of authentication check
   Multiple Appearances: Yes
   Related "Feedback-Type": any

   Field Name: Feedback-Type
   Description: type of feedback report
   Multiple Appearances: No
   Related "Feedback-Type": N/A

   Field Name: Original-Mail-From
   Description: email address used in the MAIL FROM portion of the
   original SMTP transaction



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   Multiple Appearances: No
   Related "Feedback-Type": any

   Field Name: Original-Rcpt-To
   Description: copy of the email address used in the RCPT TO portion of
   the original SMTP transaction
   Multiple Appearances: No
   Related "Feedback-Type": any

   Field Name: Received-Date
   Description: date the original message was received
   Multiple Appearances: No
   Related "Feedback-Type": any

   Field Name: Reported-Domain
   Description: relevant domain name
   Multiple Appearances: Yes
   Related "Feedback-Type": any

   Field Name: Reported-URI
   Description: relevant URI
   Multiple Appearances: Yes
   Related "Feedback-Type": any

   Field Name: Removal-Recipient
   Description: email address to be removed from the mailing list
   Multiple Appearances: Yes
   Related "Feedback-Type": opt-out, opt-out-list

   Field Name: Source-IP
   Description: IPv4 or IPv6 address from which the original message was
   received
   Multiple Appearances: No
   Related "Feedback-Type": any

   Field Name: User-Agent
   Description: name and version of the program used
   Multiple Appearances: No
   Related "Feedback-Type": any

   Field Name: Version
   Description: version of specification used
   Multiple Appearances: No
   Related "Feedback-Type": any







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8.2.  Initial values for the "Feedback-Type" registry

   The initial names and descriptions are provided below.  The RFC
   number used for registration of these values is this document.

   o  abuse - spam or some other kind of email abuse

   o  fraud - indicates some kind of fraud or phishing activity.

   o  miscategorized - indicates that the content categorization applied
      in connection with a certification or reputation system was
      incorrect

   o  not-spam - indicates that a message that was tagged or categorized
      as spam (such as by an ISP) is not spam

   o  opt-out - a request to opt out from ALL mailing lists from this
      provider.

   o  opt-out-list - a request to opt out from THIS mailing list ONLY.

   o  virus - report of a virus found in the originating message

   o  other - any other feedback that doesn't fit into other types.


9.  Security Considerations

   All of the Security Considerations from RFC 3462 are inherited here.

   This specification describes a report format.  This document does not
   say what a recipient of such a report must, should, or even may do
   with any report in the format described here.


10.  Acknowledgments

   The authors would like to thank many of the members of the email
   community who provided helpful comments and suggestions for this
   document including many of the participants in ASRG, IETF and MAAWG
   activities, and all of the members of the abuse-feedback-report
   public mailing list.


11.  References






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11.1.  Normative References

   [RFC1035]  Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and
              specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987.

   [RFC2046]  Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
              Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", RFC 2046,
              November 1996.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC2373]  Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
              Architecture", RFC 2373, July 1998.

   [RFC2616]  Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
              Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext
              Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999.

   [RFC2821]  Klensin, J., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", RFC 2821,
              April 2001.

   [RFC2822]  Resnick, P., "Internet Message Format", RFC 2822,
              April 2001.

   [RFC3462]  Vaudreuil, G., "The Multipart/Report Content Type for the
              Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages",
              RFC 3462, January 2003.

11.2.  Informative References

   [ASRG_ABUSE]
              Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) of the Internet Research
              Task Force (IRTF), "Abuse Reporting Standards Subgroup of
              the ASRG", May 2005,
              <http://asrg.sp.am/subgroups/abuse_reports.shtml>.

   [AUTH-HEADER]
              Kucherawy, M., "Message Header for Indicating Sender
              Authentication Status",
              draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header-04 (work in progress).

   [RFC0822]  Crocker, D., "Standard for the format of ARPA Internet
              text messages", STD 11, RFC 822, August 1982.

   [RFC2048]  Freed, N., Klensin, J., and J. Postel, "Multipurpose
              Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration
              Procedures", BCP 13, RFC 2048, November 1996.



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   [RFC2396]  Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
              Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", RFC 2396,
              August 1998.

   [RFC2434]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 2434,
              October 1998.

   [STRADS_BCP]
              Crissman, G., "Proposed Spam Reporting BCP Document",
              May 2005, <http://www.tmisnet.com/~strads/spam/bcp.html>.


Appendix A.  Appendix A - Sample Feedback Reports

A.1.  Simple Report for Email Abuse without Optional Headers



































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   From: <abusedesk@example.com>
   Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2005 17:40:36 EDT
   Subject: FW: Earn money
   To: <abuse@example.net>
   MIME-Version: 1.0
   Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=feedback-report;
        boundary="part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary"

   --part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary
   Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

   This is an email abuse report for an email message received from IP
   10.67.41.167 on Thu, 8 Mar 2005 14:00:00 EDT. For more information
   about this format please see http://www.mipassoc.org/arf/.

   --part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary
   Content-Type: message/feedback-report

   Feedback-Type: abuse
   User-Agent: SomeGenerator/1.0
   Version: 0.1

   --part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary
   Content-Type: message/rfc822
   Content-Disposition: inline

   From: <somespammer@example.net>
   Received: from mailserver.example.net
        (mailserver.example.net [10.67.41.167])
        by example.com with ESMTP id M63d4137594e46;
        Thu, 08 Mar 2005 14:00:00 -0400
   To: <Undisclosed Recipients>
   Subject: Earn money
   MIME-Version: 1.0
   Content-type: text/plain
   Message-ID: 8787KJKJ3K4J3K4J3K4J3.mail@example.net
   Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 12:31:03 -0500

   Spam Spam Spam
   Spam Spam Spam
   Spam Spam Spam
   Spam Spam Spam
   --part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary--







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A.2.  Opt-Out Report without Message Body


   From: <abusedesk@example.com>
   Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2005 17:40:36 EDT
   Subject: FW: Earn money
   To: <abuse@example.net>
   MIME-Version: 1.0
   Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=feedback-report;
        boundary="part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary"

   --part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary
   Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

   This is an opt-out report for an email message received from IP
   10.67.41.167 on Thu, 8 Mar 2005 14:00:00 EDT. For more information
   about this format please see http://www.mipassoc.org/arf/.

   --part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary
   Content-Type: message/feedback-report

   Feedback-Type: opt-out
   User-Agent: SomeGenerator/1.0
   Version: 0.1
   Removal-Recipient: user@example.com

   --part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary
   Content-Type: message/rfc822-headers
   Content-Disposition: inline

   From: <somespammer@example.net>
   Received: from mailserver.example.net
        (mailserver.example.net [10.67.41.167])
        by example.com with ESMTP id M63d4137594e46;
        Thu, 08 Mar 2005 14:00:00 -0400
   To: <Undisclosed Recipients>
   Subject: Earn money
   MIME-Version: 1.0
   Content-type: text/plain
   Message-ID: 8787KJKJ3K4J3K4J3K4J3.mail@example.net
   Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 12:31:03 -0500
   --part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary--








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A.3.  Full Report for Email Abuse with All Headers


   From: <abusedesk@example.com>
   Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2005 17:40:36 EDT
   Subject: FW: Earn money
   To: <abuse@example.net>
   MIME-Version: 1.0
   Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=feedback-report;
        boundary="part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary"

   --part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary
   Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

   This is an email abuse report for an email message received from IP
   10.67.41.167 on Thu, 8 Mar 2005 14:00:00 EDT. For more information
   about this format please see http://www.mipassoc.org/arf/.

   --part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary
   Content-Type: message/feedback-report

   Feedback-Type: abuse
   User-Agent: SomeGenerator/1.0
   Version: 0.1
   Original-Mail-From: <somespammer@example.net>
   Original-Rcpt-To: <user@example.com>
   Received-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2005 14:00:00 EDT
   Source-IP: 10.67.41.167
   Authentication-Results: mail.example.com
                  smtp.mail=somespammer@example.com;
                  spf=fail
   Reported-Domain: example.net
   Reported-Uri: http://example.net/earn_money.html
   Reported-Uri: mailto:user@example.com
   Removal-Recipient: user@example.com

   --part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary
   Content-Type: message/rfc822
   Content-Disposition: inline

   From: <somespammer@example.net>
   Received: from mailserver.example.net (mailserver.example.net
        [10.67.41.167]) by example.com with ESMTP id M63d4137594e46;
        Thu, 08 Mar 2005 14:00:00 -0400
   To: <Undisclosed Recipients>
   Subject: Earn money
   MIME-Version: 1.0



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   Content-type: text/plain
   Message-ID: 8787KJKJ3K4J3K4J3K4J3.mail@example.net
   Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 12:31:03 -0500

   Spam Spam Spam
   Spam Spam Spam
   Spam Spam Spam
   Spam Spam Spam
   --part1_13d.2e68ed54_boundary--


Appendix B.  Status of This Document [To Be Removed Upon Publication]

B.1.  Discussion Venue

   Discussion about this document should be directed to the ABUSE-
   FEEDBACK-REPORT mailing list
   <http://mipassoc.org/mailman/listinfo/abuse-feedback-report> which is
   also reachable via <mailto:abuse-feedback-report@mipassoc.org>.  Of
   course, comments directly to the authors are always welcome (you can
   send them via email to <ietf@shaftek.org> and
   <drafts@domain-assurance.org>).

B.2.  Document Repository and Public Website

   Copies of this and earlier versions including multiple formats can be
   found at <http://www.shaftek.org/publications/drafts/abuse-report/>.
   A public website regarding this draft and related efforts is located
   at <http://mipassoc.org/arf/>.

B.3.  Document History

   Changes from draft-shafranovich-feedback-report-01-pre1 to
   draft-shafranovich-feedback-report-01:

   o  Added an "Outstanding Issues" section.

   o  Minor spelling mistakes and clarifications.

   o  Added links to previous work and more examples.

   o  Added three new types: "fraud" for phishing, "opt-out-list" for a
      single list opt out, and "other" as a catch-all.

   Changes from draft-shafranovich-feedback-report-00 to
   draft-shafranovich-feedback-report-01-pre1:





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   o  Changed the introduction section to clarify specific points that
      are out of scope for this document

   o  Added pointers to a public mailing list for discussion and public
      web page

   o  Clarified the intent section and added some extra points to it

   o  Added a reference to RFC 2119 and changed the document to comply

   o  Made it clear that the requirements section) is not the one
      defining the standard

   o  Clarified the main format section to make all three parts
      mandatory

   o  Changed section 4f regarding subject lines to mandate that subject
      lines should be left intact.  Removed the convention for subject
      lines that was defined in the previous version

   o  Added text to the the machine readable section clarifying its
      intent.  Also added RFC 2119 references, reorganized fields,
      indicated whether specific header fields can appear more than once
      and provided references as to how they should be formatted.

   o  Removed "Original-Message-ID", "Authenticated-Domain:" and
      "Authenticated-Domain-Method" from the draft including related
      IANA registries.  Added "Version", "User-Agent", Original-Mail-
      From", "Original-Rcpt-To", "Reported-Uri", "Reported-Domain" and
      "Authentication-Results".

   o  Example has been updated to reflect new headers.

   o  Added a new section on extensibility and changed the IANA section
      to reflect that.

   Changes from draft-shafranovich-abuse-report-00 to
   draft-shafranovich-feedback-report-00:

   o  Name of the format and report changed to 'feedback-report'

   o  Minor spelling corrections

   o  Added authentication headers and registry

   o  Added feedback-type header and registry.

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   draft-shafranovich-feedback-report-01:

   o  None significant (just a freshening)

   Changes from draft-shafranovich-feedback-report-01 to
   draft-shafranovich-feedback-report-02:

   o  Much editorial cleanup

   o  Added John Levine and Paul Hoffman as co-authors

   o  Made the line lengths in Appendix A appropriate for RFCs

   o  Switched to symbolic names for references

   o  Reduced duplication of reference calls

   o  Removed text that specified the type of RFC and approval type that
      is expected

   o  Removed the requirement for an RFC to update the IANA registries;
      both are now designated expert approval only

   o  Added two new categories to the initial values for the "Feedback-
      Type" registry: miscategorized and not-spam

   o  Beefed up the Security Considerations section a bit

   o  Removed resolved questions from outstanding issues

B.4.  Outstanding Issues

   Here is a list of some outstanding issues for this document that have
   not been finalized:

   o  Whether encoding of the machine readable part should be limited to
      7-bit

   o  Whether there is a need for both "opt-out" and "opt-out-list", and
      whether this format should be used for opt-outs at all.











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Authors' Addresses

   Yakov Shafranovich
   SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc.

   Email: ietf@shaftek.org
   URI:   http://www.shaftek.org


   John Levine
   Domain Assurance Council

   Email: john.levine@domain-assurance.org


   Paul Hoffman
   Domain Assurance Council

   Email: paul.hoffman@domain-assurance.org
































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