Education - was Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Correct info in RIPE-database - YES

> > I'm a strong believer in self-regulation - so education is always
> > going to be the preferred route for me - LEA can be too heavyhanded

Agreed. That is why the strategy is based on education, not on enforcement. But it is clear from the beginning that if the right lessons are not learnt, enforcement is a very real option. But in practice we rarely meet uncooperative 'students'; most of them are eager to learn. 

> Of course.  Please do try to educate a botmaster, snowshoe spammer,
> nigerian scam artist etc.

That is exactly why we focus on the facilitators, in this case the hosting providers, and their need to act quickly on badness in their networks. And that is why we badly need correct WHOIS records, to bring the discussion back to that topic. Although we can mostly work around incorrect WHOIS records, it is annoying.

Pepijn

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