On 11/03/2013 9:38 AM, Tobias Knecht wrote:
Hello everybody,
there was some discussion about abuse reporting in general on the list.
To make it easier, we have to differentiate 2 ways of reporting.
1.) Reporting to RIPE members about abuse originating their network. 2.) Reporting of issues to RIPE NCC directly.
Brian and I have seen the demand for action in this area. We know that RIPE NCC already has some plans in both areas and we are planing a meeting with RIPE NCC folks in Dublin to discuss further steps.
Since the 2011-06 abuse-c will be implemented soon we will see some improvements for 1.) But what happens if data is incorrect or addresses do not work properly? This part of the data accuracy and is already on our agenda as well.
There is a possibility that we can give some more feedback and insights into these issues at the AA-WG Session in Dublin already. Since I have been reporting SPAM for some time, missing, out-of-date or inaccurate contact information has always been a problem.
A number of contact addresses are listed as some public general mail server such as gmail, hotmail etc. All of those are pretty much useless. Since RIPE registers the actual user, it should insist on a usable contact address at the registering organization. In addition, if this issue is taken seriously, then RIPE ought to provide a means of reporting 'abuse' by the registering organization of this feature. Arnold -- Fight Spam - report it with wxSR 0.5 Vista & Win7 ready http://www.columbinehoney.net/wxSR.shtml