[anti-abuse-wg] Abuse Contact Information - Policy Proposal

Am 23.07.2010 16:57, schrieb Emanuele Balla:
> On 7/23/10 4:32 PM, Tobias Knecht wrote:
>> Hello together,
>>
>> why are we moving the problem of non existing abuse contact away from
>> open access to bulk access.
>>
>> I would suggest the following.
> [...]
> 
>> Creating an IRT Object with an abuse-mailbox attribute.
> 
>> - Introduce the IRT Object into ASN Objects.
>> - Make the abuse-mailbox attribute mandatory for the IRT Objects.
>> - Make IRT Objects mandatory for directly by RIPE delegated Ranges.
>>
>> IMHO this will solve all the problems.
> 
> "All the problems" is maybe too optimistic, but at least we have
> something to start with.
> 
> +1

Okay, not all the problems, but it will be a good start and solve a lot
of stuff which is discussed here for years.

> I also like Richard's idea of xxxxxxxxx at abuse.ripe.net contact
> addresses: this will solve (part of) the problem of email-address
> exposure AND allow abuse address reachability monitoring.

I like the idea, but creating a single point of failure feels not right
for me. There are huge ISPs which are having problems to receive all
their incoming reports with really expensive high-end MTAs. The spammers
will have the ability to harvest those addresses and attack the single
point of failure.  You will not even be able to filter the bad stuff
because you do not know if it's really bad stuff or just a report with
really bad stuff attached.

Thanks,

Tobias