[acm-tf] Determining a sanction is the primary issue

Alessandro,

I didn't think determining sanctions was on our to-do list at all?

Brian.

On 03/05/2011 06:24, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> Hi all,
> after sleeping on it, it seems to me that determining a sanction is the most
> important item on our to-do list.  When we'll have determined it, we will be
> able to state policies formed like
>
>    If found guilty (for some sense of "guilty" that we will also
>    determine) then sanction will be applied.
>
> An example of sanction is to encourage carriers to block packets originating
> from the guilty address range and destined to port 25; more in general, to a
> port associated with a "push" protocol (not port 587).  Tobias pointed out
> that blocking a port may incur violation of connection supplies, as defined
> e.g. by German law.  Thus this example of sanction is not possible unless we
> find out that most carriers would cooperate.
>
> An example of guiltiness is not having a responsive IRT (or whatever) and
> having outstanding abuse reports for some addresses in the relevant range.
>
> jm2c
>
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