[anti-abuse-wg] audit proposals
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Frank Gadegast
ripe-anti-spam-wg at powerweb.de
Tue Jun 25 12:58:07 CEST 2013
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Sounds like a good start ... but I doubt if this should be the job of the anti-abuse-wg or its chair. I would rather prever, if there would be somebody at the RIPE NCC having this job, and setting up another wg maillinglist (like abuse-audit at ripe.net) ... I personally do not like to be flodded with discussions about specific networks, that might or might not be audited again ... If this gets changed, Im +1 Kind regards, Frank > To that end, I have three small proposals: > > 1) That the charter of the RIPE Anti-Abuse working group be ammended > so as to make abundantly clear that whenever any two or more members > of the WG bring to the attention of the chair that there may exist > some specific allocation of number resources which either is no longer > valid, or which may never have been actually valid to begin with, > (based upon currently accepted criteria for number resource allocation > within the RIPE region) then the WG chair will be obliged to undertake > a preliminary informal inquiry, including public discussion on the > mailing list, as and when that may be useful, and that following this > initial informal inquiry, if, in the opinion of that chair, there > exists some reasonable basis for believing that the number resource > allocation(s) in question may indeed no longer be valid, then the > chair is further obligated to formally report this fact to RIPE NCC, > along with a formal request from the WG to RIPE NCC, that RIPE NCC > immediately undertake a usual and customary audit of the allocation(s) > in question, and the justification thereof. > > 2) That the charter of RIPE itself be ammended to stipulate, explicitly, > that in any case in which the Anti-Abuse Working Group chair has made > a formal request, to RIPE NCC, on behalf of the WG, for an audit to > determine whether or not a given number resource allocation is or is > not currently valid, that RIPE NCC is obliged by such a request to > actually conduct the requested audit, and to do so in a timely fashion. > > 3) That the precise cirteria used by RIPE NCC to justify each possible > different kind of number resource allocation, either initially or > during any post-allocation audit, be made public in its entirety if > it is not so already. > > I make the above three proposals with an understanding that what is > politically possible at the present time with respect to most forms of > what I suspect we would all agree constitutes "network abuse" is at best > minimal. There is clearly little appetite to turn either this WG or > RIPE NCC into a functioning police force in any sense, and certainly > not with respect to matters that are not even universally accepted as > "abuse". > > Nonetheless, there does exist a massive problem with so-called "snowshoe" > spammers getting ahold of really big chunks of IPv4 address space... which > they then waste in a truly massive and almost obscene way... and also > there is a problem with crooks who either want to lay their hands on vast > tracks of IPv4 address space for so-called "black-hat SEO" purposes, or > who have already done so. As I understand it, RIPE allocation policies > _already_ place most or all of this activity outside of the established > RIPE rules and framework for allocations. So to combat at least these > few limited forms of "network abuse" it now seems that all we need is > an accepted process by which the pre-existing process known as a "RIPE > NCC audit" can be triggered, in deserving cases, many of which are already > known to, or are likely in future to come to the attention of members of > this working group and participants on this mailing list. > > > Regards, > rfg > >
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