CNET: Standards group takes aim at spam

An official Anti-Spam Research Group has been convened under the auspices of the Internet Research Task Force, a loose organization affiliated with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The IETF has traditionally been responsible for standardizing basic Net technologies such as e-mail, data transfer protocols and Internet addresses, among a host of other issues.

We could easily fill our daily quote of posts here on MF with nothing but anti-spam initiative news, but the IETF is actually one of those organizations that matters in the amorphous world of the Internet: they are the folks that bring us things like new official standards of HTML and other key protocols and initiatives that actually make the Internet work. All I can say is, it's about time.