[address-policy-wg] Re: please remove invalid abuse contacts

>  > perhaps try ripe-tech at ono.es
> 
> 
> The issue is I have no time to try and I would like the right 
> contact at the first try.
> 
> How to ensure the whois database is accurate just after the 
> IP range registration ?

You really need to get some education on how the Internet works.

First of all, this IP range was never registered with RIPE because
it is from an APNIC allocation.

Secondly, this email address was probably accurate at the time of
registration. In fact, it was probably accurate two days ago as
well. The email address exists and is active on an email server
which replied to you that the mailbox is full. This often happens
when a spammer starts sending email from a new source, and a flood
of complaints fill up the mailbox during the next few hours.

Thirdly, it is not your responsibility to police the APNIC database
or the RIPE database.

Fourthly, people who understand the dynamics of SPAM attacks, also
understand why mailboxes are full, and since there are already lots
of complaints, they decide that there is no point in adding one
more complaint. Instead, they block that IP address (or IP address 
range) from their email servers for a few days.

Finally, this RIPE address policy working group does not have
the powers to create policies which police the APNIC database,
and probably not even the RIPE database, because policing is
not really in scope for RIPE.

If there is some technical reason why you cannot solve this
issue by blocking traffic from the IP address range of the
source of the SPAM, then your only logical course of action 
is to contact the upstream peers of the SPAM source ISP and
ask those peers to block your address range from receiving 
packets. Generally you only want to do this if it is a DDoS.

--Michael Dillon

P.S. Once evening, a policeman notices a man crawling on his
knees searching for something under a lamppost. "Excuse me,
sir, have you lost something?" he says. The man replies, 
"It's my car-keys, I dropped them". The policeman gets down
on his knees and helps to search. After a moment, he says to
the man, "Are you sure that you dropped them here?". "Oh no,
says the man, I dropped them way down the street but it is
too dark there to see anything so I came here under the 
street lamp where it is easier to see.".