On 04/Feb/11 00:39, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message <4D4AD64A.5000006@ripe.net>, Athina Fragkouli <athina.fragkouli@ripe.net> wrote:
The RIPE NCC has a procedure for handling abuse complaints. Anyone can send a complaint to the email address abuse@ripe.net. All complaints are replied to in an appropriate manner. The timeline for the handling of a complaint varies depending on the type of abuse reported and the investigation/actions needed from our side.
To be effective, it is necessary that the procedure can handle, on average, the number of complaints that arrive in the meanwhile. The number of complaints may rise significantly if the procedure is published and the address advertised.
I do have one small suggestion for the drafters of this document... I suspect that it will be quite helpful and illuminating if the final document contains a flowchart of the abuse handling process. One picture is indeed sometimes worth a thousand words.
Agreed, especially if the procedure provides for handing complaints to external abuse teams, e.g. according to IP allocations.