The Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group(M3AAWG) is a global nonprofit organization founded to develop effective modelsand solutions to combat online abuse such as phishing, botnets, fraud, spam,viruses and denial-of-service attacks that can cause great harm to bothindividual and national economies. M3AAWG includes technical experts,researchers and policy specialists from a broad base of Internet serviceproviders and network operators representing over one billion email accounts,and from key technology providers, academia and volume messaging senderorganizations M3AAWG supports RIPE’s proposal to introduce a new contactattribute named "abuse-c:", which can be included in inetnum,inet6num and aut-num objects(https://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2011-06). The investigation and prosecution of criminal activity andabuse on the Internet would be greatly facilitated by the availability of suchdata being included in WHOIS. Theproliferation of spam and the transmission of malware of all types, which arethe fundamental target of the work undertaken by M3AAWG and its members, arethe most common and serious types of privacy intrusions, occurring billions oftimes a day, worldwide. ARIN Draft Policy “Abuse Contact Management in the RIPE NCCDatabase” states “abuse-c … provides a more efficient way for maintainers toorganize their provided information and helps to increase accuracy andefficiency in routing abuse reports to the correct network contact. Inaddition, it helps all kinds of institutions to find the correct abuse contactinformation more easily.” For anti-abuse researchers, investigators and systemsoperators, WHOIS and a publicly available point of intercept identifying anabuse contact is essential and fundamental information. People who manage abuseof their networks need to easily, readily and accurately identify all entitieson a given network. Therefore,M3AAWG firmly supports the adoption of the RIPE Draft Policy “Abuse ContactManagement in the RIPE NCC Database.” Sincerely, Jerry Upton, Executive Director Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group(M3AAWG) jerry.upton@m3aawg.org http://www.m3aawg.org