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These best practices and white papers represent the cooperative efforts of MAAWG members to provide the industry with recommendations and background information to improve messaging security and protect users. MAAWG best practices are updated as needed and new documents are added as they become available.

Response to the December 5, 2011 ICANN report from the WHOIS Review Team (WRT).
MAAWG outlined technical issues with S.968, Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act and H.R.3261, Stop Online Piracy Act.
Many MAAWG members routinely work with domain name registration data (DNRD) for a variety of purposes. MAAWG responded to ICANN on this domain registration internationalization report.
ESPs take on significant risk every time a new customer sends email. A bad client can undermine the sending reputation for the ESP’s other clients as well as inflict abuse at recipient domains. This paper reviews some vetting practices to avoid these problems.
MAAWG response to a request for information on bot notification from the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
With updated links to referenced documents and organizations, this paper defines how volume email senders can improve the deliverability of legitimate e-newsletters and permission-based e-marketing
The MAAWG response on the draft NICE plan was submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
In marketing terms, “appending” – also known as "e-appending" or "e-pending" – is the practice of taking demographic information known (or assumed) to be related to a particular customer and matching it with other data. It is the position of MAAWG that this is an abusive messaging practice.
MAAWG submitted a response to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) draft regulations in September 2011.
MAAWG provided a response to a series of questions related to malware and cyber-crime poised by the Science and Technology Committee of the UK House of Commons.