APCAUCE 2006

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APCAUCE's 2006 meeting was organized on 2/26/2006 in conjunction with APRICOT 2006, in Perth, Australia.

[Press Release]

Agenda: Regional Update Meeting

Sunday 26 February 2006

Venue - Meeting Room 9, Level 2, Perth Convention Exhibition Centre, Perth, Western Australia

Dress code: Smart casual - this is an informal weekend meeting

9.00 - 9:30 - Keynote Presentation:
Grant Symons, ACMA [presentation] [bio]

9:30 - 9:45 - APCAUCE and its role in the Asia Pacific
Suresh Ramasubramanian, Coordinator, APCAUCE

9:45 - 10:45 - International cooperation and outreach
London Action Plan - Jean-Jacques Sahel, UK DTI [presentation]
OECD antispam toolkit - Tom Dale, Chair, OECD Antispam Task Force [presentation]
Seoul Melbourne Pact - Grant Symons, ACMA
Moderator - Jean-Jacques Sahel, UK DTI

10:45 - 11:15 - Coffee

11:15 - 12:15 - Industry and civil society cooperation against spam
JEAG - SAKURABA Shuji, IIJ. [presentation]
SpamMATTERS - Scott Thomas [presentation]
Spamhaus - Richard Cox
Moderator - Suresh Ramasubramanian, APCAUCE

12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch

13:15 - 16:15 - Regional Updates [15:00 to 15:30 coffee break]
AU - Grant Symons, ACMA [presentation]
CN - MA Ning, ISC [presentation]
FJ - Fred Christopher, PITA [presentation]
HK - Henry Chang, OFTA [presentation]
JP - Takaaki Higuchi, IA Japan [presentation]
KR - Joon Kim, KISA [presentation]
NZ - David Harris, InternetNZ [presentation]
Moderator - David Harris, InternetNZ

16:15 - 16:45 - Open mike discussion - Antispam trends in the Asia Pacific and around the world.
This was an open discussion where the audience and speakers asked questions or raised additional points about current spam issues, ranging from practical problems and case studies in the formulation and implementation of antispam laws, to the use of botnets to cause widespread damage that is not limited to spam (for example: DDoS attacks and identity theft)

Note: These updates are on a ccTLD / regional internet economy basis.
APCAUCE makes no statement or implication on any questions of national or political identity, as these are not within the scope of the conference
APCAUCE thanks InternetNZ for sponsoring this regional update meeting

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Agenda: APRICOT antispam operational conference track

Wednesday 1 March 2006, L2/Room 5

11:00 - 12:30 - Session 1

Dave Crocker, Brandenburg Internetworking - DKIM and Email Authentication Update [presentation]
Email authentication is a topic of growing interest and relevance to email administrators, both on the sender and receiver side, and is further tied to sender reputation. There are several competing and in some cases cooperating authentication mechanisms, with varying degrees of industry adoption. Dave Crocker will provide an update on the current status of email authentication efforts, with special reference to DKIM (which combines Yahoo's DomainKeys and Cisco's Identified Internet Mail mechanisms).

Seo Boon Ng, Cisco - Botnet Activity and Mitigation [presentation]
The main topic will be how BOTNETs work, the purpose of a BOTNET, the dangers of BOTNETs, how to mitigate BOTNETs, and how we should cooperate to mitigate it. Too many Asian systems have been compromised then function as Zombie PC and are being abused to several ways.

14:00 - 15:30 - Session 2

An open discussion panel on antispam blocklists, from an operator perspective. The speakers are operators of various well known and widely used block lists.
Richard Cox (Spamhaus.org)
Matthew Sullivan (SORBS)
Mark Reynolds (Reynolds.Net.Au)
Moderator: Suresh Ramasubramanian (Outblaze Limited)

16:00 - 17:30 - Session 3

Ray Hunt, University of Canterbury - Tightening the Net: A Review of Current and Next Generation Spam Filtering Tools [presentation] [document]
This paper provides an overview of current and future spam filtering approaches. It then examines the problems spam introduces, including discussing what constitutes spam and how it can be measured. The paper then focuses on discussing automated, non-interactive filters, which cover a broad range from open source to commercial implementations leading on to new ideas proposed by research papers in this area.

Simon Lardner, Australian Communications and Media Authority - Technical Initiatives to Combat Spam [[http://wiki.apcauce.org/rup2006/Simon-Lardner-APCAUCE-RUP2006.ppt presentation]]
This session discusses several technical initiatives in antispam operations where the Australian government discusses cooperation with ISPs to fight spam and prosecute spammers, in the context of the Australian antispam law.