[display-names] True Names, and other Dangers

[Steve Jones]

I know the IPR disclaimers/footers may not have been established yet, so I
hearby declare a complete lack of interest in what I'm about to say. (*Wait,
what?)*

I believe this list has been chartered to discuss and develop ideas to
remediate fraud/phishing attempts at leveraging the display name portion of
the RFC5322.From, often referred to as the "friendly from." Did I get that
wrong, or badly incomplete? Do we need anything more concrete about the
scope of work for the group?

We have representation from some of the largest ISPs, who are de facto
providers of the most commonly used MUAs. But does anybody feel the need to
recruit somebody from the organizations around any of the popular - or
remaining - non-browser-based MUAs? Anybody have a handy ComScore or
Gartner report about which of that category of MUAs are still in use? Or is
this just another example of how I'm still living in the 1990s?

Depending on the interest and energy of the individuals involved, I would
be thinking of somebody affiliated with Microsoft's Outlook client, Apple's
Mail.app, and Mozilla.org's Thunderbird if it is still under active
maintenance.

--S.
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