All the M3AAWG Public Policy Comments are available fom the M3AAWG Public Policy page in this section.
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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.
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February 10, 2023
M3AAWG Help! I Hit a Spam Trap!
The Senders Committee has created this document in an effort to help Email Service Providers (ESPs) mitigate the consequences of hitting spam traps. The document provides details on what spam traps are, the impact they have on mailings, and includes suggestions on ways to use spam trap feedback to improve customers’ sending practices, thereby minimizing future spam trap hits. In this document, “customer” refers to the organization using the ESP to send emails.
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September 19, 2022
M3AAWG Objectionable Content Takedown Template
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This document provides a template for designing an enforcement process to use when an organization becomes aware of objectionable content being hosted on its network and determines that it requires a takedown. This objectionable content might fall under – but may not necessarily be limited to – the organization’s policies and applicable regulations.
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June 27, 2022
M3AAWG Protecting Parked Domains Best Common Practices Update 2022-06
Many organizations and individuals register domains without an immediate intent to use these domains or to use them in a limited context. These domains (or subdomains) are not meant to send or receive email traffic. For instance, a domain can be registered to prevent a bad actor from acquiring and abusing the domain, known as a defensive registration. These domains are “parked.” In other instances, the domain or subdomain is used exclusively to contain a website with no email service enabled. This document provided general updates to the 2015 document and removed items that are no logner relevant. (pending Japanese translation update)
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February 21, 2022
M3AAWG Brand Protection Kit Domain Management
This document focuses on domain management. It outlines how to protect brands from threat actors who are keen to register domains that mimic a brand in order to steal information and/or assets.
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September 13, 2021
M3AAWG Disposition of Child Sexual Abuse Materials Best Common Practices
This document is not legal advice. M3AAWG strongly suggests that readers work with their company’s legal counsel or avail themselves of independent legal advice regarding their rights, responsibilities and obligations relevant to prevailing legal jurisdictions.