Richard Clayton wrote:
#1 people who set the email address to nowhere@example.com
#2 people who set the email address to nowhere@unregistereddomain.com
#3 people who used to own unregistereddomain.com but forgot that email addresses are using that domain in a RIPE object
#4 people whose company used to use abuse@brandA.com but have moved to abuse@brandB.com and now brandA.com is a black hole because the forwarding doesn't work on the new server
#5 people whose mail system is just broken
#6 people who host their email at Google think that Google will deliver email to an abuse desk even when that email contains bad URLs
oops, I think the proposal doesn't cover #6 and should! because I see this on a regular basis
Nevertheless, it's surely some improvement if RIPE detects when abuse contact details are unintentionally broken.... but testing once a year for that (rather than every couple of months) doesn't seem to be sufficiently often to me.
Wouldn't using the existing ARC process work for #1-#4? Nick