[display-names] True Names, and other Dangers

[MH Michael Hammer (5304)]

Rather than stating it as "to remediate fraud/phishing attempts at leveraging the display name portion of the RFC5322.From" I prefer to use a more generic "abuse attempts".

But that's just me.

Mike
From: display-names-bounces at trusteddomain.org [mailto:display-names-bounces at trusteddomain.org] On Behalf Of Steve Jones
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 3:17 PM
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Subject: [display-names] True Names, and other Dangers

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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