[acm-tf] Fwd: [arin-announce] Abuse Contact to be Mandatory per Policy 2010-14

On 20/Jul/11 14:55, Tobias Knecht wrote:
> That is interesting. Thanks for sharing.

>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Fwd: [arin-announce] Abuse Contact to be Mandatory per Policy 2010-14
>> 
>> Existing Org IDs will also need to comply with this rule. If an existing
>> Org ID does not have an Abuse POC already listed, the existing Tech POC
>> (s) will also become the Abuse POC(s) by default.

The only advantage I can see of making this POC mandatory is for
automating outgoing abuse reports.  The same advantage can also be
achieved at the level of a RIPE-hosted tool for retrieving such POC,
without the accompanying disadvantage of inserting spurious data into
the database.

For a provoking example, when the POC-retrieval tool finds no abuse
POC in the database, it could instead return the string

   RIPE-missing-abuse-POCs at anti-abuse-volunteers.org

Complaints reaching such mailbox would just get suitably counted,
sorted, and checked.  Statistical results might as well be made
publicly available.  I don't think finding volunteers to run such job
would be much of a problem, if RIPE NCC didn't want to do it itself.

jm2c