Meng Weng Wong

Meng Weng Wong 黃銘榮 is a serial entrepreneur. In 1994 he founded pobox.com, an email services company. In 2003 he led the group who designed the Sender Policy Framework standard (RFC4408) which was later embraced and extended by Microsoft. In 2005 he co-founded Karmasphere, a reputation services venture. Image File history File links A portrait of Meng Weng Wong. ... Image File history File links A portrait of Meng Weng Wong. ... A serial entrepreneur is type of entrepreneur who starts a new business after having already started and exited a previous business venture. ... Pobox, Inc. ... In computing, Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an extension to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). ... Microsoft has publicly stated that it aims to embrace and extend popular standards and existing work. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ...

Antispam work

In 2003, Wong hybridized two earlier proposals for sender authentication, DMP (Designated Mailer Protocol) and RMX (Reverse Mail Exchanger), and devised SPF (Sender Policy Framework, originally Sender Permitted From). In November, he met Mark Lentczner at the Hackers Conference; Lentczner, an experienced protocol and language designer in his own right, became the primary co-author on the draft specification. SPF quickly caught on among the opensource community, receiving mentions on Slashdot, on Dave Farber's influential Interesting-People mailing list, and elsewhere. During 2004 Wong traveled widely, visiting ISPs in North America, Europe, Singapore, and Japan, and speaking at conferences to explain SPF. He was appointed Senior Technical Advisor to the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group. In 2004 Microsoft merged their similar proposal, Caller-ID For Email, with SPF to form Sender ID Framework. In 2005, the Microsoft implementation was rolled out in Hotmail, Exchange, and Outlook. In 2006, RFC4408 was published by the IETF as an Experimental Standard. As of August 2006, between one-third and one-half of legitimate email volume worldwide carries an SPF record. Slashdot, often abbreviated as /., is a science, science fiction, and technology-related news website owned by SourceForge, Inc. ... David J. Farber is a professor of Computer Science, noted for his major contributions to programming languages and computer networking. ... Hotmail is a free webmail e-mail service, which is accessible via a web browser. ... Microsoft Exchange can mean: Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Client: the native and bundled client of Exchange server up to version 5. ... Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook since Outlook 2003) is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. ...

He is a proponent of the Internet Mail 2000 architecture first popularized by Dan Bernstein; he calls it RSS/Email. Together with Nathan Cheng, Julian Haight, and Richard Soderberg, he led an initial implementation in 2006 which was presented at Google in July 2006. Internet Mail 2000 is a new Internet mail architecture proposed by Daniel J. Bernstein (and in subsequent years separately proposed by several others), designed with the precept that the initial storage of mail messages be the responsibility of the sender, and not of the recipient as it is with the... Daniel Julius Bernstein (sometimes known simply as djb) is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a mathematician, a cryptologist, and a programmer. ...

Wong subscribes to the accountability framework first devised at the Aspen Institute by Esther Dyson and other visionaries. In that framework, authentication and reputation work together to create accountability. SPF, a sender authentication standard, offers the first half.

In 2005, Wong co-founded Karmasphere.com with Martin Hall, the inventor of WinSock and three-time serial entrepreneur. Karmasphere.com aims to offer the second half: reputation. Wong has described Karmasphere as the credit bureau for Internet identities. Martin Hall is the head coach of Halifax RLFC. He took over the head coach job from sacked coach Anthony Farrell in June 2006. ... Windows Sockets API version 2. ...

Published essays

Wong has published a variety of articles related to technology and society, including

• To Be In Touch, an academic essay about the modes of presentation of self online and offline
• What Segway Bans Have Taught Me About Politics, in the Los Gatos Observer
• Why DSL Providers Are Terrible Email Providers, on Dave Farber's Interesting-People mailing list.
• Internet Governance: An Antispam Perspective, on Circle-ID.

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Bio

Wong hails from Singapore, where he attended the Anglo Chinese School and Raffles Institution as part of the Gifted Education Programme. From 1997 to 2000 while performing National Service he attended an MBA course at the National University of Singapore. This article is primarily about the Anglo-Chinese family of schools in Singapore. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Gifted Education Programme (GEP) is a Singaporean academic programme designed for the top 1% of pupils (Based on a screening test at the end of Primary 3). ... National Service (NS) is the name given to the compulsory conscription in Singapore of all male Singaporean citizens and second-generation permanent residents upon reaching the age of 18. ... University Cultural Centre The National University of Singapore (Abbreviation: NUS; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; Abbreviated 国大; Malay: Universiti Nasional Singapura; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் தேசிய பல்கலைக்கழகம்) is Singapores oldest university. ...

Wong is a graduate of St. George's School and the University of Pennsylvania. He presently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. In a recent biography he claims the following hobbies: documentary portraiture, recreational survivalism, armchair dating, graphic design and typography, and precision housekeeping. St. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... USGS satellite photo of the San Francisco Bay Area. ...

Conference appearances

He has spoken at the following conferences:

• PC Forum 2006
• The Hackers Conference 2003–2006
• Inbox Event
• ISPcon
• Japan Antispam Summit 2005, Keynote speaker
• IETF 59
• National University of Singapore Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2006
• MAAWG where he was appointed a Senior Technical Advisor.

Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group is a group of telecom companies brought together by OpenWave in early 2004. ...

External links

• Interview about SPF
• Home Page of Meng Weng Wong
• LiveJournal