1. Richard Hill Partner, Hill & Associates rhill@hill-a.ch
ITU Workshop on
“Countering and Combating Spam”
(Durban, South Africa, 8 July 2013)
Outcome of WCIT on spam
Richard Hill
Partner, Hill & Associates
Durban, South Africa, 8 July 2013

2. African proposal Countering spam
Member States shall ensure that operating agencies take appropriate measures to prevent the propagation of spam including:
to adopt national legislation to act against spam;
to cooperate to take actions to counter spam;
to exchange information on national findings/actions to counter spam.
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3. Article 7 [was 5B] Unsolicited bulk electronic communications
Member States should endeavour to take necessary measures to prevent the propagation of unsolicited bulk electronic communications and minimize its impact on international telecommunication services.
Member States are encouraged to cooperate in that sense.
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4. Cannot be seen as addressing content
Article 7
Is subject to:
human rights obligations
article 1: “These Regulations do not address the content-related aspects of telecommunications.”
Cannot be seen as addressing content
It is about measures that do not related to content (e.g. address filtering; see Recommendations ITU-T X.1231 and X.1240)
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5. Best practices are provided by the ITU and other organizations
Article 7
Should lead to cooperation to implement best practices that are already prevalent
should make it less likely that some country would (perhaps unwittingly) adopt inappropriate spam legislation
Best practices are provided by the ITU and other organizations
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6. Internet Society material
The fight against spam requires implementing a series of actions on several levels:
Effective application of anti-spam law
Awareness raising
Development of technical solutions
Strong international cooperation
See
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7. ITU-T Recommendations IETF RFCs
Technical Solutions
ITU-T Recommendations
IETF RFCs
Messaging Malware Mobile Anti Abuse Working Group (M3AAWB or MAAWG)
Spamhaus project
Others
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8. Conclusions and recommendations
States should cooperate to counter spam as outlined above
National legislation
Training/capacity building
Ensure that end-users and ISPs have access to appropriate anti-spam software
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