[gnso-ff-pdp-may08] Marc Perkel - Statement of Interest

[Marc Perkel <marc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I hope i'm doing this right. I'm Marc Perkel, and individual and owner 
of a spam filtering company Junk Email Filter 
(http://www.junkemailfilter.com).
Junk Email Filter is a spam fighting company. We act as a front end 
filtering service with some email hosting. Mostly customers set their MX 
records to point to our servers. The email comes in to us - we filter it 
- and forward the good email on to the customer's existing email server. 
Our mission is to deliver all the good email and block as much spam as 
possible.
As an individual my background is software engineering. I am also a 
former employee (sys admin) of the Electronic Frontier Foundation 
(eff.org) with a strong interest in civil liberties and individual freedom.
I am also the founder of the Church of Reality, a religion based on 
believing in everything that's real. We see the Internet as a 
significant step in the evolution of humanity and the most important 
advance in information sharing since the invention of the printing press.
I also have some background in law, all self taught.

I tend to look for solutions that impose the least restrictions and 
burden on the majority law abiding community who is using the Internet 
for legal productive purposes. I have some theories that part of the 
solution might lie in registrars providing more information about 
domains that spam filtering companies like us can use to help determine 
good email from spam. In the case of fast flux, if I could read the age 
of a domain and the number of recent changes to the nameserver record I 
can combine that with information from spam and determine what email to 
block. I could also public a DNS blacklist of fast fluxing domains that 
other spam blocking companies can use to block spam.
Additionally I would like to see DNS based contact information so I can 
turn an IP address into an abuse email address of who to contact to stop 
abuse at the source. That way if I've spotted a spambot I can send an 
automated message to someone who can fix the problem at the source.
I am currently tracking 1,624,019 virus infected computers who tried to 
send spam through our system in the last 5 days. If I had a way of 
sending automated abuse complaints to the right people I could shut down 
over 1.5 million spambots.
I believe that the war against the spam bot armies is something that is 
winnable and that is can be done without compromising the privacy and 
liberties of ordinary people. I am hoping that after some hard work and 
using good reasoning that we can come to a consensus on the right 
solution, implement it, and win. Quite frankly I would like to put 
myself out of business because the problem I am solving has gone away.