[anti-abuse-wg] RIPE NCC Abuse Complaints, Audits and Reports

Hello Athina,

many thanks for this report.

> Currently, abuse complaints come in via abuse at ripe.net. When this is a 
> valid complaint, we investigate the matter, we contact the relevant LIR 
> and we execute an audit on the LIR.

This, read in isolation, could support misunderstandings, at least I'm
about to be confused.  What nature of "complaints" would initiate
an audit?  I'm confident that "valid" above means that the complaint
has significant indication that either the LIR as such has issues with
its existence or legal status or the object maintained by the LIR
or the respective assignee has such issues or raises serious doubts,
failure to clear which would raise a process violation by the LIR.

I'd not read this as "a customer of LIR x sent me spam and therefore the
LIR is now undergoing an audit.

Thanks,
  Peter