These best practices and papers represent the cooperative efforts of M3AAWG members to provide the industry with recommendations and background information to improve messaging security and protect users. M3AAWG best practices are updated as needed and new documents are added as they become available.
All the M3AAWG Public Policy Comments are available fom the M3AAWG Public Policy page in this section.
MAAWG Vetting Best Common Practices (BCP)
ESPs take on significant risk every time a new customer sends email. A bad client can undermine the sending reputation for the ESP’s other clients as well as inflict abuse at recipient domains. This paper reviews some vetting practices to avoid these problems.
MAAWG Overview of DNS Security - Port 53 Protection
This paper briefly discusses how an DNS attack works, the impact of this threat, proposes a solution and discusses the advantages and disadvantages from a technical, business and regulatory standpoint
M3AAWG Common Best Practices for Mitigating Large Scale Bot Infections in Residential Networks
Note: This M3AAWG best practices paper has been replaced by RFC 6561 Remediation of Bots in ISP Networks, March 2012 from the IETF.
Abuse Desk Common Practices
A summary of the most effective abuse desk best practices from MAAWG service providers
in Spanish-MAAWG Best Practices for the Use of a Walled Garden (Ver. 1, 2007)
MAAWG Best Practices for the Use of a Walled Garden, July 2007 in Spanish
in French-MAAWG Best Practices for the Use of a Walled Garden (Ver. 1, 2007)
MEILLEURES PRATIQUES DU MAAWG CONCERNANT L'UTILISATION D'UN JARDIN FERMÉ MAAWG Best Common Practices for the Use of a Walled Garden, Version 1, 2007 in French
in Chinese-MAAWG Best Common Practices for the Use of a Walled Garden (Ver. 1, 2007)
反信息滥用工作组（MAAWG）有关采用宽带花园（Walled Garden) 的最佳做法 - MAAWG Best Common Practices for the Use of a Walled Garden, Version 1, 2007 in Chinese
in Arabic-MAAWG Best Practices for the Use of a Walled Garden (Ver. 1, 2007)
التي يوصي بها الفريق المعني بمكافحة إساءة استعمال المراسلةأفضل ممارسات التحكم في بيئات النفاذ المحصنة - MAAWG Best Common Practices for the Use of a Walled Garden, Version 1, 2007 in Arabic
in Russian-MAAWG Best Practices for the Use of a Walled Garden (Ver. 1, 2007)
Передовой опыт MAAWG в отношении использования "огороженного сада - MAAWG Best Common Practices for the Use of a Walled Garden, Version 1, 2007 in Russian
MAAWG Code of Conduct for Messaging System Operators
Outlines a voluntary set of principles for messaging system operators that discourages bulk messaging abuse of peer-to-peer messaging platforms