What is X-ASVP?
X-ASVP is the eXtensible Anti-spam Verification Protocol
X-ASVP is a method for enabling peer to peer scalable
authentication between holders of an Internet e-mail address, with
redundancy and reliability provided by secondary (tld) and tertiary
(global) providers.
While the initial use of X-ASVP is to combat Unsolicited
Commercial E-mail (spam), X-ASVP can be used as a front end handshake
for many other existing protocols.
About the X-ASVP Committee
The X-ASVP Committee is a non-profit, non-governmental,
international, professional membership organization working to build,
support and encourage the use of X-ASVP and the common
infrastructure required for reliability, redundancy and universality.
X-ASVP Controlling Committee, Sustaining members, and
individual members are working together to fight spam while
setting in place an infrastructure that will be usable into the future
in support of other peer to peer Internet protocols.
The X-ASVP Committee encourages the use of a protocol that
will, if both endpoint domains have implemented it, operate in
peer-to-peer mode.
Benefits of Membership
Members
of the X-ASVP Committee support the building and maintenance of the
secondary and tertiary infrastructure services. Since domain
hosts sometimes go offline, and since
not all domains will implement the protocol, the X-ASVP Controlling
Committee operates a
supporting infrastructure for backup and failover use.
While this infrastructure is owned and operated internationally by
independent persons, companies, governments or organizations, all
owners of this infrastructure who are in good standing with the X-ASVP
Controlling Committee, have agreed to provide backup and failover
hosting of token generators or meta-documents to Sustaining Members or
Individual Members of the X-ASVP community.
Sustaining Members
Sustaining Members of the X-ASVP Committee are Enterprises or ISP's
that make an annual donation to the X-ASVP Committee equal to or
exceeding the amount listed in this table.
Sustaining Members are entitled to have a programmatic
token-generator hosted on one of the infrastructure servers associated
to the Committee. (If the provider of the top level domain host
is in good standing with the Committee the generator will be hosted at
X-ASVP.tld where tld is in the same top level domain as the Sustaining
Member domain.) Hosted token generators must meet the requirements of the
"secondary path" provider to which it is assigned.
Individual Members
Individual Members of the X-ASVP Committee support the work of the
X-ASVP Committee by donating to the Committee working fund.
Individual members who donate above the "Global Support" level are
entitled to have an individual meta-document hosted on
on one of the infrastructure servers associated to the Committee.
(If
the provider of the top level domain host is in good standing with the
Committee the generator will be hosted at X-ASVP.tld where tld is in
the same top level domain as the Individual Member domain.)
The list of top level domains currently in good standing and
participating in this "secondary path" hosting program includes, com,
net, org, and many ccTLD's listed under the heading Controlling
Committee Membership.
Contact the X-ASVP Committee
X-ASVP Chair
2443 Fair Oaks Blvd
#147
Sacramento, CA 95825, USA
Email: chair@x-asvp.org
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Headlines
Publications
The X-ASVP Committee maintains the protocol definition
document, updates process flow diagrams, reviews, assigns handles
to, and publishes experimental "extensions" for the Level 1
method.
The X-ASVP Internet-Draft
document
The proposal for a new protocol that enables individual users
and mail server operators to apply a
scalable, configurable, user-controllable authentication mechanism to
SMTP messages (e-mail). This protocol has been submitted to the
Internet Engineering Task Force for consideration to RFC status.
The latest version of the document will always be found at the above
link.
Protocol Diagrams
The Committee has created several process flow diagrams to help the
Internet community understand and implement X-ASVP. The diagrams
show different configurations that are
possible with the protocol, including:
- Peer to Peer (ISP to ISP) Implementation (no end user interaction)
- End user implementation within mail client software
- Manual end user implementation using non-compliant mail client
software.
- Executive Overview
The X-ASVP Committee Bylaws
As a volunteer professional organization, The Committee operates
under
a set of Bylaws adopted by The Board. The Board is elected by The
Controlling Committee. The Controlling Committee is open to all
operators of the X-ASVP infrastructure ( i.e., owners of
X-ASVP.tld
domains). The latest version of the Committee bylaws will always
be
found at the above link.
The Board
The X-ASVP Controlling Committee has elected the following members to
the listed postions on the Board with terms of office through June 30,
2008
Controlling Committee Member
|
Board
Position |
TLD's
represented |
| Gerald Klaas, CISSP |
Chair
|
com, net, cn
|
Paul Choate
|
Vice-Chair
|
es, name
|
Steven Winterfeld, CISSP
|
Technology Officer
|
de, cc
|
| Chris Kenyon, CCNP, CCDP,
CCSP |
Operations Officer
|
ph, tw, kr
|
John Steinbrun, MBA, CPA
|
Treasurer
|
eu, it
|
Sharon Wertz
|
Recorder
|
be, tw, fm, vg
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Controlling Committee Membership
The following top level domains are represented by a member in
good standing on the X-ASVP Controlling Committee. The registrant
of each domain name X-ASVP.tld, for every TLD approved by ICANN, is
eligible to appoint a member of the Controlling Committee. The
following TLD registrants have appointed a member and have agreed
to participate in the Membership Benefits secondary hosting
program.
COM
NET
ORG
BIZ
|
 |
INFO
MOBI
NAME
|
AG
AT
BE
BZ
CC
CN
DE
DK
|
ES
EU
FM
GS
IN
LA
MS
PH
|
SC
TC
TK
TV
TW
US
VC
VG
WS |
Frequently
Asked Questions
FAQ for Individual
Members
FAQ for Sustaining
Members
FAQ for
Committee Members
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