X-ASVP Controlling Committee
2443 Fair Oaks Blvd #147
Sacramento, CA  95825

Date

My Congressman
Rayburn Office Building
To Address 2
Washington DC

Attention: 	Technology Staff 

Subject:	X-ASVP and the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003

Reference:  	Reference (delete if not needed)

Dear Congressman,

The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 has failed to produce the results that Congress intended.  Current statistics consistently show that Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE), commonly called “spam”, represents 85% or more of all e-mail traffic on the Internet.  The CAN-SPAM Act required the Federal Trade Commission to create a report to congress on the feasibility and technical challenges of creating a National Do Not E-mail Registry.  The FTC concluded that a private market alternative should be found.

I believe that such an alternative has been found, and ask you to sponsor legislation that would equate the UCE entity of the Internet X-ASVP protocol with a record in the “National Do Not E-mail Registry” as it is defined in the CAN-SPAM Act.  This legislation alone would bring into existence a “virtual database” and would both allow the DOJ to take a stronger position in prosecutions, and would provide new technical tools for investigation and tracking of suspected spammers.

Please see the July 16, 2007 Press Release on the X-ASVP.org website located at
http://x-asvp.org/_pub/press_releases/pr20070716.html

Thanks,

John Public
Individual Member, X-ASVP Committee