[anti-abuse-wg] OECD report on SPAM

It's not within RIPE NCC's remit afaik



Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight
http://Blacknight.tel

Via iPhone so excuse typos and brevity

On 22 Nov 2010, at 11:22, "julien tayon" <jul at julbox.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> http://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/displaydocumentpdf/?cote=dsti/doc%282010%295&doclanguage=en
> 
> In short, in this long report, abuse handling is pinpointed as essential in cutting off spam & crimes (there are no cyber crimes, only crimes imho). Sounds like trivial to me, but who knows ?
> 
> I guess some pressure is directed from OECD to RIR for an «improved» abuse handling :)  This may be the LEA pressure we heard of on this list sooner and the reason it came back to life after years of sleeping. :P
> 
> Since there is a bimodal distribution with very few ISP (50) accounting for 30% of spam and they suggest to target legitimate ISP.
> 
> Europa (RIPE region) seems to be the region with the most infected big ISP (which is not correlated with volume)...
> 
> * making the asumption that these 50 ISP have a poor abuse handling ;
> * remembering that RIPE IP handling is linked to the respect of the procedure and the quality (contractually) ;
> * observing that RIPE region is one of the most infected ;
> My question is :  does RIPE have a responsability in this topic by not enforcing the «we shall not give you new IP» rules when ISP failed to handle their abuse ?
> 
> sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
>