[anti-abuse-wg] How to find abandoned networks (was Spam FAQs need revision)

Suresh,

On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 07:17 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> So - hiding stuff from the whois is just not going to cut it as much
> as RIRs fixign their process, and SPs adopting best practices.

To be clear, I'm not advocating hiding things in the Whois, I just don't
see any value in spending resources to find unresponsive contacts if the
only point is to label them in the Whois. I guess when you are trying to
report a problem it can save the effort of sending an e-mail if the
address has no contact. But I figure that most reporting is automated at
least a little, so overall the actual efficiency gained is minimal.

Now if there was some actual implications about the resource - which to
be honest, means revoking the allocation - then it would make sense.

The problem is, others have pointed out, making a requirement to have an
abuse e-mail role that replies to messages is such a low bar it actually
has no real value. But maybe others think that forcing address holders
to set up an e-mail autoresponder is worthwhile?

--
Shane