1. TF-MSP
4th February 2010
John DYER
TERENA
Report on EQUAL Workshop Improving the Quality of Services 9 December 2009 UvA AMSTERDAM

2. Why EQUAL? TF-MSP – September 2008 TF-MSP February 2009 Summer 2009
RedIRIS Reputation Block List
TF-MSP February 2009
RedIRIS, SURFnet; UNINETT; BELNET; GARR; GRNET; JANET thought to be interested
Idea of a workshop discussed
Summer 2009
Panel phone conferences
TF-MSP, October 2009
EQUAL WORKSHOP announced
EQUAL WORKSHOP, UvA, 9 December 2009

3. Workshop Programme 36 Attendees representing 15 countries
10 Presentations:
SURFnet - Paul Dekkers, SURF-mailfilter
RedIRIS - Jesus Sanz de las Heras, Reputation list, spam-trap, RACE
RedIRIS - Francisco Monserrat, IRIS RBL
RedIRIS - Jaime Perez, Reputation Systems work item inside Terena:
RENATER - Jerome Durand, RENATER antispam service
UvA - JP Velders, DNS whitelists for usage
TERENA - Dick Visser, Important and relevant for systems
UNINETT - Magnus Strømdal, Lessons learned from operating Mail Dike
ETH - David Bruce McLaughlin, Open Source Mail Filtering at the ETH-Z
CISCO – Eliot Lear, Need and methods to improve confidence in
Real enthusiasm and interest to work together
distribution list has 47 members

4. Highlights & Principals
genuine surprise about the amount of work that is currently underway in our community
strong desire to capitalise on all the knowledge and expertise by sharing and collaborating
would best be achieved under the auspices of TERENA
TF-EMC2, TF-CSIRT, TF-MOBILITY and TF-MSP
initially take place in an ad-hoc EQUAL group

5. Concrete Ideas Continued exchange of information between NRENs
Considering a community-wide white-list / blacklist exchange or system
Establishing and recommending: Common Policies; Standards and Best Practice
Possible joint-NREN procurement of commercial offerings
Exploring what can be done in respect of the proliferation of private information online
Seeking community membership of MAAWG
Maintaining the EQUAL distribution list and hosting online material

6. The way forward Video Conference Birds of a Feather at TNC 2010
core members of EQUAL
Take concrete items and explore
Make a formal proposal for EQUAL work
Birds of a Feather at TNC 2010
Tuesday 1st June 18:00 – 20:00
Related Meetings:
TF-EMC2 and TF-MOBILITY, February 2010, Vienna, Austria
MAAWG, 8-10 June 2010, Barcelona, Spain