Instructions on the foundation's website on how to implement a mailserver
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The IPv6 Task Force announced on Thursday that the winner of its IPv6 Awards is the Foundation IPv6 Whitelist non-profit initiative founded by email security firm SpamExperts. The awards aim to bring awareness to the shift to IPv6 and the specific implementations of IPv6 adoption, according to its website.
According to SpamExperts, the foundation came up with a solution to guarantee the email security as soon as the internet switches from the current IPv4 system to the IPv6 system. It says that IPv6 will make it easier to send out spam and it will be more complicated for users to protect themselves against harmful email. This foundation will help alleviate the security concerns, SpamExperts says.
The Foundation IPv6 Whitelist initiative was undertaken by Dreas van Donselaar, CTO of SpamExperts, to encourage companies and individuals to register their mail servers. The whitelist will allow mail server administrators to register their machine online in seconds without any personal records being held for privacy protection. According to the announcement, ISPs will be granted access to an API to automatically manage all entries on the list.
Mail from machines other than those on the whitelist will not be processed in the Netherlands, according to SpamExperts. SpamExperts says this results in a manageable amount of devices that are registered to send email. In addition, botnets used for distributing spam are automatically locked out.
According to the report, the system is an improvement for fighting spam compared to having to apply reputation-based filtering on the various potential mail servers.
The IPv6 Task Force is stimulating IPv6 implementations in the Netherlands. Over the past few months, ISPs and other organizations working towards the change and implementation of IPv6 were able to compete for the IPv6 award. The jury nominated nine organizations, and then chose SpamExperts as the winner. The jury will contribute about $20,000 to expand the foundation’s activities.
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