RE: [anti-spam-wg] Non-cooperation of RIPE ISP in investigating report of email abuse (spam)
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To: "John Draper" lists@localhost, "der Mouse" mouse@localhost
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From: "brett" brett@localhost
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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:45:50 +0100
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> To: der Mouse
> Subject: Re: [anti-spam-wg] Non-cooperation of RIPE ISP in
investigating
> report of email abuse (spam)
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> der Mouse wrote:
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> > You are *exactly* the right people to report it to. That you are
> > determined to wash your hands of the responsibility that goes with
your
> > authority is in large part why RIPE space is so abuse-ridden; that
> > ICANN and the IANA are letting you get away with it is why it has
> > continued that way for so long (and, because they do the same
nothing
> > with other RIRs, why the rest of the world has similar problems).
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> I totally agree - when I was running SpamCrunchers, I very
aggressively
> went after RIPE, APNIC and bitterly complained about some of their
> database updating policies. Eventually, after really hitting them
hard
> with "Bogus Whois" complaints, I started to get SOME action, but
that
> was back in 2004. No telling HOW irresponsible they are now, and it
> almost gives me the impression they RIPE and others, are on the take
and
> helping spammers.
C'mon do you seriously believe that these people could be on the take or
can I hear the sound of a troll from the bridge I am stood on :) I can't
speak for APNIC but I can tell you that the RIPE NCC are most definitley
not in league with spammmers.
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> Upstream providers can also help identify the spammers if one comes
> across a BOGUS WHOIS. I have UNIX Daemons that automatically deal
with
> BOGUS WHOIS complaining, as it automatically checks every 3 weeks,
> after a 3rd time, it automatically sends another BOGUS WHOIS
> complaint... then sends one to the upstream provider.
>
> I definately agree that RIPE, ARIN, and other IP Block assignment
> agencies HAVE to take a good part of the responsibility for making it
> very difficult to track down hostile traffic.
>
Yes I agree the RIPE community (that's us folks) should bear the
responsibility for not putting a policy in place that tells the RIPE NCC
what to do.
> WHOIS queries were designed to allow security folks to track down
> network problems of all sorts, and they (RIPE, ARIN) have the
> responsibiity to keep their data updated. So they should be part of
the
> solution instead of being part of the problem.
>
Aha another common mis-conception AFAIK the data within the RIPE whois
database does not belong to the RIPE NCC and hence they cannot change it
without express instruction from the RIPE community. I do concede that
this (and some of the other things mentioned within this thread) may be
a broken model, but that is the model we currently have if the communtiy
is unhappy about that model they of course have the power to change it.
Brett
