[ncc-announce] [news] Starting our Abuse-c Validation

Dear colleagues,

Next week, we will begin emailing LIRs with invalid abuse contacts in 
their RIPE Database ORGANISATION objects. We plan to send the first 
emails on Wednesday, 20 February.

This is the first step in our implementation of the policy proposal 
2017-02, "Regular abuse-c Validation", which was accepted last year.

Once all LIR ORGANISATION objects have been validated, we will proceed 
with the validation of abuse contacts referenced in LIR resource objects 
and finally those referenced in End User (sponsored) objects.

To save having to deal with this later, please take a moment to review 
your abuse contact information and make sure this is accurate.

LIRs with abuse contacts that are maintained in the RIPE Database by 
third parties (e.g. End Users) are especially encouraged to think about 
reviewing this information sooner rather than later.

You should not receive any emails from us if all of the abuse contacts 
that you are responsible for are valid.

You can find updated information about our validation process on RIPE 
Labs, and we will keep you updated as we continue with our 
implementation:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/angela_dallara/how-we-will-be-following-up-with-invalid-abuse-contacts

Thank you in advance for helping to keep the RIPE Database accurate and 
up-to-date.

Kind regards

Angela Dall'Ara
Internet Resource Analyst
RIPE NCC