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Appointment & Removal of Working Group Chairs
by Brian Nisbet 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

Colleagues, As you may have seen on other mailing lists all of the RIPE WG Chairs have been asked to open the discussion with their relevant working groups regarding an agreed set of procedures for the appointment and potential removal of working group chairs, or certainly allowing for their replacement. This is up to each WG to discuss and reach consensus on and is far from set in stone. Tobias & I would like to present the text below as a starting point for this discussion and we welcome your thoughts. While this conversation may be done and dusted on the mailing list before we get to RIPE 69, we will set aside some time at the meeting to discuss it. ****************************** Note on Language: Throughout this document the word Chair shall be used for both Chairs and Co-Chairs. ** Introduction: This document aims to provide outline procedures to deal with the tenure of RIPE Working Group Chairs. It applies to all RIPE Working Groups. ** WG Chair Term: The normal term for a WG Chair is three years, after which the WG Chair must resign. A WG Chair may stand for re-selection after resignation. A WG Chair may resign voluntarily at any time. ** Selection of a WG Chair: WG Chair vacancies, along with a call for candidates, should be announced on the WG mailing list at least one month in advance of the date upon which the selection will be held. The announcement should set a closing date for candidates. A WG may request that a WG Chair vacancy be opened so long as the addition of a new Chair would not cause the number of Chairs of that WG to exceed the maximum number specified in this document. WG Chairs are elected at WG sessions at RIPE meetings. Anyone physically present at the WG session is eligible to participate in the selection process. The candidate does not need to be physically present at the WG session. If possible the Chair should be elected by acclamation by the WG or by consensus after discussion. If the result is unclear, then a secret ballot should be held. In the case of a ballot, votes will be counted by RIPE NCC Staff and/or Chairs of other WGs. The result will be determined by simple majority. ** Removal of a WG Chair: A WG Chair may be unable to fulfil their duties as described in this document or otherwise fail to serve the WG and the community. With the endorsement of a significant share of the WG, a vote of no confidence may be initiated. Before a vote of no confidence is taken, due effort should be made to address the issue(s) leading to the vote. The right of reply must be given to all parties involved in the procedure. If this effort fails to resolve the issue, the vote may proceed. The vote must be requested on the WG mailing list at least one week in advance of the WG Session at a RIPE meeting and should take place during the WG session. Anyone physically present at the WG session may take part in the vote. The vote should be conducted by secret ballot and votes counted by RIPE NCC Staff and/or WG Chairs of other WGs. The result will be determined by simple majority. If the vote of no confidence in a WG Chair is passed, the seat is vacated and the WG Chair is not eligible for stand for re-selection. ** No Chair: If a working group is left with no Chair, e.g. due to the resignation or removal of the sole WG Chair, then the WG may elect an interim WG Chair according to the selection procedures specified above, but with candidates nominated at the WG session. An interim WG Chair must resign at the next WG session, but may stand for re-selection. ** Staggered Introduction: For the purposes of staggering the introduction of this policy, in the case where all co-Chairs of a WG have served for more than the standard WG Chair term limit, an optional waiver is given to these WGs to allow them to schedule the automatic resignations of their Chairs over the two RIPE meetings immediately following the adoption of this policy. If the WG decides to avail of this waiver, it is the responsibility of the WG to decide in what order its co-Chairs should stand down.

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RIPE 68 Minutes for the Anti-Abuse Working Group Session
by Brian Nisbet 13 Sep '14

13 Sep '14

Colleagues, Here are the draft minutes from the RIPE68 AA-WG meeting in Warsaw. It would be great if people could review these and note any issues and/or action points prior to our meeting in London. As a reminder, there is still space on the agenda for the London meeting. Thanks, Brian ***************** Anti-Abuse Working Group Minutes – RIPE 68 === A. Administrative Matters === Brian welcomed the participants to the Working Group session and introduced himself and Tobias as co-chairs. and thanked the RIPE NCC for providing support in the form of chat monitor, scribe and stenographers. The minutes from RIPE 67 and RIPE 66 were approved and there were no additions to the agenda. === B. Update === Brian asked the room if there was anything pertaining "abuse-c:" that needed to be raised. As nobody spoke up, Brian stated that it could be covered later on if needed. Brian mentioned that he had circulated some text for the working group charter. He noted that there had been some discussion but was happy to keep any discussion on the list. He invited the room to make any comments there and then if needed. There were no comments. Brian urged the participants to read the charter on the mailing list. === C. Policies === Brian stated that there were no open policies at the moment. === D1. Interactions With Other Working Groups === Regarding interactions with other working groups on policy, Brian noted that he and Tobias had agreed with Nigel Titley and Wilfried Wober, the Database Working Group Chairs, that he and Tobias would work on the data verification policy. He mentioned that he and Tobias would not have time for this soon, and therefore urged participants that, should they want to take on the task, they were welcome. === D2. Proof of identity discussions – RIPE Policy Proposal 2007-01 === There was some discussion about the level of proof of identity that the RIPE NCC should expect. Athina Fragkouli, RIPE NCC, stated that this was also discussed in the Address Policy Working Group and there were not many concerns about how the RIPE NCC handles proof of identity. She added that the RIPE NCC is always open to changing procedures. Brian asked the room whether the RIPE NCC are doing enough, too little, or to much regarding proof of identity. He asked if there should be more trust. Jim Reid, unaffiliated, felt that things should be left as they are. He expressed that he thought it was bad to collect personal data unless there is a strong need for the data. However, he can appreciate the RIPE NCC's point and can see how it's useful in some cases, such as for law enforcement and other aspects of anti-abuse. Brian agreed that it's okay for the RIPE NCC to continue as it is. === E1. "Anti-Abuse: The View from the Messaging World" - Jerome Cudelou, M3AAWG === The presentation is available online: https://ripe68.ripe.net/presentations/373-M3AAWG.pdf Brian asked whether there are any more areas of mutual engagement that could be touched upon. Jerome responded that it would be best to become members of M3AAWG. Brian asked whether non-members of M3AAWG could contribute to M3AAWG’s documentation. Jerome responded that he didn’t think it was easy to do and that it is better to become a member. Rüdiger Volk, Deutsche Telekom, asked if there were documents that would explain what is expected of an abuse contact. Jerome responded that the document is under discussion. Vincent Schonau, abuseix and co-chair of the Training Committee at M3AAWG, further clarified that there is the Abuse Desk Best Practises document that is now a few years old. He added that the Abuse Desk Special Interest Group has revived the document and would work on it in upcoming meetings. Alex de Joode, LeaseWeb, stated that LeaseWeb is not a member of M3AAWG but are participating in the Hosting Special Interest Group (SIG) and the Abuse SIG so participation is possible without becoming a member. Brian asked Alex what the procedure was for participation. Alex responded that he had sent a message to Gerry Upton and received a free invitation. Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob, Delft University of Technology, asked if M3AAWG cooperate with research institutions. She mentioned that Delft University of Technology are working on banking malware and mobile malware, and asked if M3AAWG share data with them. Jerome responded that they do share data with research institutions. Vincent noted that M3AAWG has a very open policy about inviting people to come to the European meetings and the emerging groups such as the Hosting SIG. He directed interested parties to Gerry, Jerome or himself for an invitation. Brian asked an open question to RIPE NCC members in the room whether there had been any interaction with M3AAWG since RIPE 45 in Barcelona. Jochem de Ruig, RIPE NCC, responded that the RIPE NCC would try to come to Brussels and that the RIPE NCC did find the meeting useful for engagement with the community. ==== E2: Impact of abuse-c Bengt Gördén, Resilans The presentation is available online: https://ripe68.ripe.net/presentations/383-impact_abuse-c.pdf Ruediger asked whether the message to the abuse-c at Spamhaus was successful. Bengt replied that it was not, and asked if there were questions about that. Ruediger continued, adding that Spamhaus is bullying people on the Internet and that a joke he had heard is that it may be possible to send a claim of copyright or trademark infringement with the name Spamhaus and send it to .org. Bengt added that it would work. Ruediger added that the Internet community needs to make sure that things are balanced out, thanking Bengt for his presentation. Erik Bais, ATB Internet, added that they had been in the same situation with Spamhaus and it had been well-documented. Bengt responded that he had read about it. Erik continued that they had disclosed fully about their interactions with Spamhaus, who had behaved brazenly in return, finding the situation amusing and even blogging about it on their website. Erik added that Spamhaus do not care and that they have been invited to the RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group sessions, to have a panel and discuss the proper policies, but had refused the invitation. Brian added that that the relations between the Working Group and Spamhaus were not as good as they would like, and redirected the discussion back to “abuse-c:”. Erik stated that they transferred some of their address blocks and even after six months they still receive emails to their abuse mailbox regarding blocks that they don’t own anymore. He called for people to use the RIPE Database and asked how it is possible to make people update their information. Bengt replied that he feels the community needs to work on this issue collectively, but not necessarily in a way that results in any legislation or policy. Erik added that it’s good to remember that Spamhaus does not block mail and there is always a need for well-managed block lists. Peter Koch, DENIC, asked Bengt about his slides as they seemed somewhat contradictory to him, as they looked more like a “suffering story” rather than a success story and he did not understand why it was being used as an example, as Bengt’s “I told you so.” Bengt responded that maybe it is time that they give up on optimising the “abuse-c:” for an audience that cannot be educated. Brian invited Tobias Knecht, his fellow chair of the Anti-Abuse Working Group to comment on similar policies in other regions. Tobias stated that the policy about “abuse-c:” was brought into APNIC in a different way, as well as at AFRINIC. While the implementations were different, the end result was the same - that there is an abuse contact in the Whois Database, a single space. Bengt noted that he had tried to get an abuse contact for Spamhaus and it hadn’t worked. Alex Le Heux, Kobo Inc, added that they had similar experiences with many of those blacklists. He stated that Spamhaus regularly attends M3AAWG and advised those who wanted to meet with them, to go to the Brussels meeting. He invited those with similar experiences to come to the meeting so that some sort of best practises for blacklists can be set up. Brian confirmed that a best practises document that has come out of M3AAWG already exists. === E3: Abuse-c: Next Steps for “abuse-c:” Denis Walker and Christian Teuschel, RIPE NCC === The presentation is available online: https://ripe68.ripe.net/presentations/162-aa_wg.pdf Brian noted that time was running short, and some discussion may need to be directed to the mailing list. Ruediger asked if it was explained anywhere how ORGANISATION objects should be used. Denis responded that it was one of the big problems with the RIPE Database. Ruediger noted that there is no documentation and explanation of the data model that the RIPE NCC says that the community should be following. Denis replied, saying that no business rules were built into the software to enforce any of this, and agreeing that there are no guidelines. Ruediger argued that, if there is a data architecture that should be followed, it should be documented and agreed upon. He called for a document that explains what the architecture is. Brian asked whether this discussion would be something better suited to the Database Working Group. Peter thanked Denis and Christian for their hard work. He noted that the RIPE Policy Development Process allows early and often objections and he believes that they are at risk of going completely overboard in a variety of aspects. He stated that he thinks that the model is in the wrong direction, and he is opposed to “salami tactics”. His interpretation of one of the slides is that there is an ORG object and the addresses hang off it, and he cannot find any document that describes it that way. The database model with which he is familiar is one built around the objects you ask for, and the information attached to the objects, in other objects. He called for changes to the model. He added that if this were moved to the Database Working Group, that would only partly help as the changes proposed from the Anti-Abuse Working Group may not be compatible with the Database Working Group point of view. Brian clarified that, if there were issues with the architecture and business rules and documentation, then it would be more appropriate for the Database Working Group to work with the RIPE NCC to get that written. Peter stated that it may be time to reconfirm the mission of the RIPE Database, adding that it should not become a “compliance stick” for Local Internet Registries or resource holders. Christian asked Peter what he had meant by “salami tactic” regarding the validation. Peter clarified that having a mailbox does not mean that mail is delivered or read. The next slice of salami is to validate, so that mail can be expected to be deliverable. He envisioned that, three months later, it won’t only be deliverable, but there would be a reply. Christian replied that this is what they had proposed, improving the data quality. Peter added that caution would need to be taken when regarding data quality as it is a topic for the admin-c and the resource holder. He believes that the data should be correct because that is the core mission. Via remote participation, Gilles Massen asked if, as the existing IRT objects are becoming more invisible, would it be possible to reference an IRT from the “abuse-c:” or at least add the useful IRT features like BGP keys to the “abuse-c:”. He stated that he would like to see relaxed constraints like a copyright-abuse-mailbox: NULL for signalling that one should not expect a reply to those sorts of messages. He also asked that IRT objects not be touched without prior discussion in the Working Group. Denis responded that the RIPE NCC understands that the IRT object is not very popular and that they have been asked to propose to the community as to how the IRT could be made more useful. He will provide feedback to the Working Group for further review. Piotr Strzyżewski, Silesian University of Technology, referred to Bengt’s presentation, noting that some of these corporations don’t care about the “abuse-c:” and therefore it wouldn’t be useful to establish another point of contact for them. He added that he loves the idea of national responsibility. Regarding validation, he feels there should be some policy about that. Christian responded that he thinks validation and extending the ROLE object should go through the RIPE Policy Development Process. Brian stated that he thinks it must go through that process. Christian continued, stating that extending the ROLE object is something that has come from the community. While he acknowledges that some countries have more than one national CSIRT, the implementation needs to be clear and the list of contact details for all of them should be provided. He added that the RIPE NCC is trying to work with them, in the case that the “abuse-c:” fails. Brian asked about the origin of the request from the community. Christian replied that it hadn’t come from the mailing list, and had come from a meeting of the computer security community. Kaveh Ranjbar, RIPE NCC, added that the provision of a proper abuse contact was a recurring point in the RIPE NCC Survey 2013’s results and therefore the RIPE NCC had started to attend security conferences. Ruediger asked Christian if the CSIRTS were happy about getting the reports, or if they were unhappy. Christian replied that they were happy. Ruediger expressed doubt and surprise that they would be happy to be “flooded” by copyright abuse reports. He called for guidelines and information as to what kind of report people should be sending to abuse contact, and how people should be responding to these reports. Denis added that, if Ruediger wants the RIPE NCC to provide these guidelines, then the community should provide the text. Ruediger agreed with Denis that this is a task for the Working Group. Brian added that he was surprised that the CSIRTS were happy, and noted that many countries don’t have a CSIRT. He added that he would put out a call for volunteers to help work on the guidelines. Ruediger added that, without guidelines, doing validation beyond mechanics is meaningless. === E4: Introduction to Contact Databases for Abuse Handling Aaron Kaplan, nic.at === Aaron explained how they do contact lookups at csirt.at, a national CSIRT for Austria. He noted that a national CSIRT is usually just a router for abuse contact information and that there are different approaches in different countries. Aaron asked those involved with the RIPE Database to have IRT objects, “abuse-c”, etc. as specific and up-to-date as possible as it will help those sending information to national CSIRTS for lookups. Brian asked where the information about Aaron’s presentation would be available and if he could publish it to the list. Aaron added that it is a document on Github. Brian asked if he could email the list with the URL. Aaron replied that it is part of a document that Christian Teuschel and Mirjam Keuhne, RIPE NCC, and Wilfried Woeber started. It is connected to a GitHub project called GitHub.com/CERTtools that is a contact cache/contact database for national CSIRTs so that they can build on the process. Brian added that it might be good to discuss this in more depth at a future RIPE Meeting. Aaron stated again that the CSIRT is just acting as a router, passing copyrights through, and the copyrights end up with network owners under their policies. However, he noted that the routing process can be optimised. There were no further questions or comments. Brian thanked Aaron for his presentation and invited the room to contribute agenda items for RIPE 69 in London. He thanked the scribe, speakers, stenographers and participants before closing the session.

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Call For RIPE 69 Agenda Items
by Brian Nisbet 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

Colleagues, We're roughly two months out from RIPE69 and the next exciting Anti-Abuse Working Group Session! The meeting will take place in London from the 3rd - 7th November 2014 - http://ripe69.ripe.net The Anti-Abuse WG Session will take place on Wednesday 5th at 14:00 GMT. As always we're hoping the WG will be informative and interesting with lots of time for discussion. If you have anything you would like to see on the agenda, please contact aa-wg-chairs(a)ripe.net Thanks, Brian

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Abuse contact information sense
by Angel Fernandez Pineda 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

Dear all, My name is Angel F. Pineda and I'm a new AA mailing list member. Although I have been reading the mailing list archive before to send this email, let me apologize because I'm sure the subjects I would like to present to the list has been commented before. Few days ago I sent a compliant to RIPE NCC because a LIR was not responding to my request about a copyright infringement from one of their assigned IPs, that I was sending to their email abuse contact information from the RIPE database. The response from RIPE NCC was that the abuse-c information exist, so it is enough from the RIPE's point of view, and it is not RIPE's matter if the LIR wants to answer or not to a request. If it is right, I would like to know what the aim of the abuse contact information is. Is it merely a formal question? Regards, Ángel F. Pineda P.S: I'm sending this email to this list because the person from RIPE NCC that attended me told me that: "The great thing about the regional internet registry system is that opinions like yours matter. If you think the RIPE NCC could/should do more as an regional internet registry, please bring this up in one of the RIPE community working groups: http://www.ripe.net/ripe If your idea receives support, it becomes a policy that the RIPE NCC then implements: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies We can then take action."

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No abuse contact returned in inetnum web lookups
by furio ercolessi 03 Jul '14

03 Jul '14

When looking up an IP using a whois client, one gets the new abuse contact information at the top of the response, such as % Abuse contact for '193.0.0.0 - 193.0.7.255' is 'abuse(a)ripe.net' Unfortunately, this is not happening when doing a web lookup (that is, from https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/query.html ). Of course one could follow the org link and eventually find it, but it would probably be better to show it right on the returned page for the inetnum object, also considering that generic abuse victims are probably more likely to use the web interface than the whois interface. Can this be corrected ? furio ercolessi

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Working Group Charter, Draft 2
by Brian Nisbet 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Colleagues, Having taken on board a number of points, here is another draft of this. I think we've got the kinks knocked out, so to speak, or at least reached a point where rough consensus may be manageable. I'm going to set a deadline of 15:00 UTC +1 on Friday 6th June to end this round of discussions. Obviously if something needs to be discussed beyond that, it can, but we've been talking about this for a couple of weeks now. Importantly while I'd like some statements of support, silence, at this point, will be taken to indicate consent. Please see the draft below, Brian ********************************** As the Internet has evolved, so has the scope and scale of network abuse. Unsolicited bulk email (spam) is often merely a symptom of deeper abuse such as viruses or botnets. Consequently the Anti-Spam Working Group has a wide scope, to include all relevant kinds of abuse. The technical details of spam and other abuse constantly vary, in terms of application channel and technique. Channel examples include SMTP, SIP, XMPP and HTTP. Examples of techniques range from buffer overrun to social engineering. Within scope are all systems and mechanisms, both technical and non-technical, that are used to create, control, and make money from, such abuse. While areas such as hosting illegal content or copyright infringement are not seen as a central part of the working group's remit, they are unquestionably bound up in other aspects of network abuse and, as such, may be areas of interest. The working group considers both technical and non-technical aspects of abuse, with the following goals: Produce and continue to update a BCP (Best Common Practice) document for ISPs similar in nature to RIPE-409 but covering a wider range of possible abusive behaviours. Provide advice (beyond that of the BCP) to relevant parties within the RIPE region such as ISPs, Governments and Law Enforcement Agencies on strategic and operational matters. Discuss and disseminate information on technical and non-technical methods of preventing or reducing network abuse.

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New on RIPE Labs: SSH Intrusion Detection with SSHCure
by Mirjam Kuehne 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Dear colleagues, SSHCure is an SSH Intrusion Detection System that is capable of distinguishing successful from unsuccessful attacks, and thereby detecting actual compromises. It's been developed at the University of Twente. Please find more details in this new RIPE Labs article contributed by Luuk Hendriks: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/luuk_hendriks/sshcure-ssh-intrusion-detection… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Receiving police order on not in use IP
by Lu 31 May '14

31 May '14

Hi We recently receive a Dutch police order requesting us providing customer info on an ip in which was not in use for past 6 month, we do not have record for the usage of the ip 6 month ago( so we don't know who used it 6 month ago as we simply don't record it). Police claim it has to do with crime without giving any details. How should we react on this? Any suggestions? This transmission is intended solely for the addressee(s) shown above. It may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. Any review, dissemination or use of this transmission or its contents by persons other than the intended addressee(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify this office immediately and e-mail the original at the sender's address above by replying to this message and including the text of the transmission received.

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Working Group Charter
by Brian Nisbet 30 May '14

30 May '14

Colleagues, For the past couple of RIPE meetings the charter (as per http://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/anti-abuse ) has bee mentioned on the agenda, but not much has happened. While I note that there hasn't been a huge call for change (nor do I believe much change is required), I'd like to propose a slightly altered Charter in advance of our meeting on Thursday. Of course that is not to suggest that discussion should be limited to that meeting. The discussion should take place here, mainly because this is the right place for it, but also given the time limitations we have at RIPE68. The change I'm suggesting is to this section: "It is considered difficult for this charter to include an exhaustive list of abuse types that would be considered within the scope of this working group, not least because this is expected to change over time. However an initial list can be stated and any necessary additions can be made. Spam via SMTP Spam via VoIP (SPIT) Spam via IM Webforum/blog Abuse All systems and mechanisms, technical and non-technical used to create, control and make money from such abuse. It is important to note that areas such as cybersquatting or hosting illegal content are not seen to be part of the remit of the working group." I would instead propose: "It is considered difficult for this charter to include an exhaustive list of abuse types that would be considered within the scope of this working group, not least because this is expected to change over time. The list below is relevant at time of writing, but any necessary additions, subtractions or changes can be made. Spam via any medium Webforum/blog Abuse Denial-of-service attacks All systems and mechanisms, technical and non-technical used to create, control and make money from network abuse. While areas such as cybersquatting or hosting illegal content are not seen as a central part of the working group's remit, they are unquestionably bound up in other aspects of network abuse and, as such, may well be areas of interest." I believe this properly reflects the work the WG has undertaken thus far and the discussion both on list and at meetings. Brian Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG

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New on RIPE Labs: Better Crypto
by Mirjam Kuehne 22 May '14

22 May '14

Dear colleagues, We have published a new article on RIPE Labs which you might find of interest: Better Crypto - Applied Cryptography Hardening (by Aaron Kaplan) https://labs.ripe.net/Members/aaron_kaplan/better-crypto Aaron presented this at the RIPE 68 Meeting last week. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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