[members-discuss] Database Abuse

Hello Alex,

 

As a broker, LIR, and contact for some address blocks in RIPE and ARIN, I receive these solicitations as well, and it is particularly bothersome getting solicited from other brokers who should know better.

 

I would support administrative action against LIRs or registered brokers at RIPE who abuse the DB, but what if these people are buying a list of email addresses which they are not aware was scraped from the DB?  Would that offer some defense?

 

Regards,

Mike Burns

 

 

 

 

From: members-discuss [mailto:members-discuss-bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Alex Lobachov
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2017 5:24 AM
To: members-discuss at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [members-discuss] Database Abuse

 

Good day,

 

I’m all for administrative actions to LIR members (usually guys who are involved in ipv4 transfers) who are found guilty of using the DB with commercial goals.

 

Closing the LIR might be the appropriate (yet quite aggressive one) action for them.

 

Comments?

 


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From: Tim Armstrong <mailto:t.armstrong at nerdalize.com>  

Sent: Thursday, September 7, 2017 11:17 AM

To: Vegard Svanberg <mailto:vegard at monsternett.no>  

Cc: members-discuss at ripe.net <mailto:members-discuss at ripe.net>  

Subject: Re: [members-discuss] Database Abuse

 

Or if your details are in the list and / or you are a technical contact attached to an LIR then you can see everything. 

Only non-technical / non-LIR people can't access it.

Perhaps use passing the RIPE DB Training course as a requirement for access.

 

 

On 7 Sep 2017 10:06 am, "Vegard Svanberg" <vegard at monsternett.no <mailto:vegard at monsternett.no> > wrote:

* Tim Armstrong <t.armstrong at nerdalize.com <mailto:t.armstrong at nerdalize.com> > [2017-09-05 10:36]:

> I hate to bring this subject up again, but is there really nothing
> structural we can do about this? 
> At a minimum we could occlude e-mail addresses from the public DB,
> instead having public complaint submitted via a webform on the NCC
> website, requiring the uninitiated to realise this is an abuse /
> complaint contact, not a sales opportunity.

I understand the problem (and get those pitches myself nearly daily). I
have no alternative, simple solutions. I also haven't thought this
through in detail. :-) However, and despite all that: I'd oppose the
idea of hiding/obfuscating emails and centralising/limiting feedback
loops to the NCC website. I'm concerned about the operational
consequences of limiting the opportunity to collect emails and build and
maintain lists of contact points (potentially) important for operations.

And if we remove just emails, we'd probably have to do the same with
phone numbers. They're calling from time to time as well.

Again, I haven't thought this through, but it's the knee-jerk response
anyway. Perhaps naming, shaming and blacklisting the offenders might be
a better way to go. Perhaps verified members could get regular database
dumps (including contact info) from other sources, or authenticate
against the db to get the whole lot. I don't know. I'm not sure the
problem is big enough to warrant any major changes.

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