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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March 31, 2019
M3AAWG Best Common Practices for Mitigating Abuse of Web Messaging Systems, Version 1.1
Cyber criminals are increasingly turning to Web-based messaging systems to transmit their content. Yet, there are many techniques to prevent or mitigate these attacks and this document details the Best Common Practices for protecting these messaging systems. This Version 1.1 has been updated additional suggestions for managing the collection, storage and indenxing of data, a new section on multifactor authentication and other changes.
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February 17, 2019
M3AAWG Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Flowspec Best Practices
Flow Specification (Flowspec) is a new type of Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) for the BGP routing protocol. It was originally developed to help mitigate DDoS attacks but its use has expanded to numerous other applications.
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January 01, 2019
M3AAWG Position on Email Appending, Version 1.0.1
In marketing terms, “appending” – also known as "e-appending" or "e-pending" – is the practice of taking demographic information known (or assumed) to be related to a particular customer and matching it with other data. It is the position of M3AAWG that this is an abusive messaging practice. The January 2019 Version 1.0.1 is updated to include the European Union's GDPR and CASL.
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December 20, 2018
M3AAWG Best Current Practices for Reporting Phishing URLs
Phishing continues to be a significant problem for hosting companies, mailbox providers, brand owners and, of course, for every internet user. This document iinforms all of these groups on the best current practices for reporting phishing URLs.
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June 01, 2018
A M3AAWG Introduction to Addressing Malicious Domain Registrations
This document focuses on defining malicious domain names and provides a non-exhaustive list of possible actions that can be taken to address them.