Microsoft on Thursday is holding a summit with members of the E-Mail Service Provider Coalition to address the use of Sender ID technology as a standard to fight spam and phishing.
The software giant said it would gather more than 80 members of the ESPC coalition at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters to discuss using Sender ID as a way to ensure that e-mail originates from the Internet domain it claims to come from. Fighting the annoyance of spam and the dangers of fraud activity such as "phishing" is among the top concerns of Internet users and the companies that serve them. Sender ID validates the server Internet Protocol address of the sender to assure an e-mail recipient that a message claiming to be from a credit card company actually is. The technology relies on Microsoft's Caller ID for E-Mail technology and the Sender Policy Framework, authored by Meng Weng Wong, chief technology officer at Pobox.com.
The Internet Engineering Task Force is currently evaluating Sender ID as an industry standard for e-mail authentication. Thursday's meeting will look at what Sender ID can do to control unwanted e-mail and at the challenges the technology will bring to legitimate users of e-mail. Several companies have already announced plans to roll out products and services that support Sender ID, including Cloudmark, DoubleClick, IronPort Systems, Sendmail, Symantec, Tumbleweed and VeriSign, Microsoft said in a statement.
News source: C|Net News.com
