Seoul-Melbourne Multilateral MOU on Cooperation in Countering Spam

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Seoul-MelbourneMultilateral MOUonCooperation
in Countering Spam

• 19 November 2004
• Lim, Jae-Myung
• Spam Response Team
• Korea Information Security Agency

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Overview

• Background
• What are problems?
• ACA KISA
• Seoul-Melbourne Multilateral MOU
• A brief history
• Purpose Focus of Cooperation
• Scope of Cooperation
• Form of Cooperation
• Others
• Further Schedule

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Background -
What are problems?

• Spam is international matters
• Spam is about 70 of all emails in the world (by
  MessageLabs)
• Cross-border spam (Inherently a global problem)
• Only 2 of global spam that Australians receive
  comes from Australian sources
• 20 of spam that Koreans receive originates from
  overseas
• There is no single solution
• Technical measures
• Educations and Awareness
• Legislations and Policies
• Regulations and Self-Regulations
• International Cooperation is an essential
  factor
• ITU, OECD, APEC, ICPEN, UNCTAD
• Korea-Australia MOU concerning cooperation in the
  regulation
• Australia-UK-US MOU on mutual enforcement
  assistance
• London Action Plan on enforcement cooperation

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Background
- ACA KISA

• Signed up the bilateral MOU (Oct. 2003)
• The First MOU on countering spam at the
  international level
• Cooperation and the exchange of information
• has occurred on the following
• Contact details and background information
• Anti-spam legislation
• Enforcing spam regulatory frameworks
• Technological solutions to spam and
• Best practices for industries self-regulations

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Seoul-Melbourne Multilateral MOU
A brief history

• 1st ITU G-Rex Virtual Conference (Mar. 2004)
• Suggested the necessity of the multilateral MOU
• ITU WSIS Thematic Meeting on Spam (Jul. 2004)
• Proposed approaches to multilateral MOU
• Annual Meeting between ACA KISA (Sep. 2004)
• Agreed to expand the MOU in collaboration
• Preparation on the draft of Multilateral MOU
  (Nov. 2004)

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Seoul-Melbourne Multilateral MOU
Purpose Focus of Cooperation

• Minimising spam originating
• In each country
• Passing through each country
• Being sent to end users in each country
• Exchanging of information on
• Technology
• Education
• Policy

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Seoul-Melbourne Multilateral MOU
Scope of Cooperation

• The exchange of information about policies and
  strategies for establishing and enforcing
  anti-spam regulatory frameworks
• The exchange of information relating to technical
  and educational solutions to the spam problem
• The exchange of information and strategies about
  the effective use of regulation policies and in
  support of enforcement
• The exchange of intelligence, relating to the
  other countries, gathered as a result of
  enforcement
• Industry collaboration

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Seoul-Melbourne Multilateral MOU
Form of Cooperation

• Establishment of channels for exchange of
  information as appropriate, and exchange of
  information on spam, anti-spam measures and
  emerging issues
• Exchange of delegations and visits as appropriate
• Encouragement of liaison between industry and
  Government organisations to promote areas of
  interest and cooperation
• Other forms of cooperation arranged bilaterally
  or multilaterally by the Signatories

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Seoul-Melbourne Multilateral MOU
Others

• Period
• 5years in effect
• Designated Representative
• To act as a contact point of each signatory
• To determine the particular directions of
  cooperation
• To ensure the effectiveness of all cooperative
  activities
• Secretary of Signatories
• An officer of one of the Signatories with
  rotation base
• To act as a contact point for joining and
  coordinate sign-up process
• To assist to disseminate information among the
  Signatories
• Joining of New Signatories
• Voluntary and open to relevant Government
  organisations of any nation
• - A single nominated contact point within a
  particular country needed
• With acceptance of the credential by a majority
  of current signatories
• - Completing the details of the Signatory
  Schedule

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Seoul-Melbourne Multilateral MOU
Further Schedule

• Nov, 2004
• Inviting to join the Multilateral MOU
• - Approaching the relevant organisations by ACA
  and KISA
• respectively
• Dec, 2004
• Signing up the Multilateral MOU
• - Primarily among countries in the Asia-Pacific
  region

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• Many thanks and Questions