[anti-abuse-wg] Recent Discussion & RIPE NCC Issues

Morning,

There's been some very interesting discussion on the list recently, 
raising all sorts of point, with the odd diversion here and there. There 
are a few main points I'd like to address, with updates from the RIPE 
NCC, with whom I had a very useful conversation this morning.

RIPE NCC Audits & Reporting

Currently the NCC reports on audits to the NCC Services working group 
and they prepare a report for the community. While this overall 
reporting method won't change, they have agreed to send the latest copy 
of the report to the AA-WG and to send a copy of future reports to the 
list.

Education/BCP

As previously mentioned, this is an action on the AA-WG Chairs and we 
will be reporting back to you on this in the run up to and during RIPE 63.

RIPE NCC Abuse Complain Procedure

Along with more information on the Audits the NCC will be mailing the 
list, likely before the middle of next week, on their plans for the 
abuse complaint procedure. They will be outlining improvements to how 
abuse can be reported, what those reporting incidents should expect and 
what will be accepted. While information will, of course, be sent to the 
list, there will also be a presentation on this matter at RIPE 63. All 
of this is part of an ongoing plan to deal with issues with 
inconsistencies (deliberate or accidental) in the Database. The work of 
the ACM-TF also touches on this.

This email is not meant as a full description of the NCC and WG 
activities, as I said, more information will be made available next 
week, so I would ask you to hold any questions until then. If it is felt 
that there is a requirement for further changes or expansion of 
activities, then we get into the territory of proposals and the NCC 
budget and both the AA-WG chairs and the NCC will render any assistance 
they can to anyone who would like to examine the possibilities there.

One additional point, this mailing list, and the WG as a whole, will 
remain open to anyone in the RIPE community. As has been mentioned, we 
cannot work in isolation, nor should we.

As regards the bounces, I'll pass them on to the relevant folk.

Thanks again for your robust participation over the last two weeks and 
hopefully both this email and the NCC's response next week will go a 
long way to answering your points.

Regards,

Brian.