Industry Memberships & Supported Organizations

Sendmail's goal is to expand the reach and capabilities of email security technology to benefit our customers and open source community. In support of this, Sendmail participates in and is a member of several industry organizations.

	The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is the global pan-industrial and law enforcement association focused on eliminating the fraud and identity theft that result from phishing, pharming and email spoofing of all types. www.apwg.org
	DKIM is a leading technology in support of email sender authentication. It was advanced by an industry consortium in 2004 that included Sendmail and IBM along with Yahoo! and Cisco who merged and enhanced DomainKeys (Yahoo!) and Identified Internet Mail (Cisco) to create DKIM. The resulting specification is now in production use. DKIM is now with an IETF working group, for refinement and standardization. www.dkim.org
	EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Membership is open to institutions of higher education, corporations serving the higher education information technology market, and other related associations and organizations. The current membership comprises more than 2,000 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 200 corporations, with 15,000 active members. www.educause.edu
	The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. The actual technical work of the IETF is done in its working groups, which are organized by topic into several areas (e.g., routing, transport, security, etc.). www.ietf.org
	The Internet Society (ISOC) is a professional membership society with more than 100 organization and over 20,000 individual members in over 180 countries. It provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including the Internet Eng. Task Force (IETF) and Internet Architecture Board (IAB). www.isoc.org
	The purpose of MAAWG is to bring the messaging industry together to work collaboratively and successfully address forms of messaging abuse such as messaging spam, virus attacks, denial-of-service attacks, and other forms of abuse. To accomplish this, MAAWG is developing initiatives in the three areas needed to resolve the messaging abuse problem: Collaboration, Technology, and Public Policy. www.maawg.org
Mutual Internet Practices Association	Mutual Internet Practices Association (MIPA) facilitates cooperation among independent organizations, to ensure a basic level of safe, reliable service across the Internet. MIPA members collaborate on a common set of best operational practices, to achieve predictable and efficient interoperability among participating organizations. mipassoc.org
	The Trusted Electronic Communications Forum (TECF) is a cross-industry, cross-geographic consortium dedicated to the standardization of technologies, techniques, and best practices in the fight against phishing, spoofing, and identity theft. www.tecf.org
	Sendmail.org is the Official Website of the Sendmail Consortium. The Sendmail Consortium is the non-profit sponsor of the sendmail open source MTA and Sendmail.org. Sendmail.org is committed to advancing the security of the Sendmail MTA and fostering the community of open source Sendmail developers, contributors and users. www.sendmail.org
	Since 1975, the USENIX Association has brought together the community of engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world. The USENIX conferences have become the essential meeting grounds for the presentation and discussion of the most advanced information on the developments of all aspects of computing systems. www.usenix.org