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

On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 15:11 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Shane Kerr <shane at time-travellers.org> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> But this effort was, I thought, aimed at identifying defunct entities
> that still hold IP space and attempt to reclaim it?

I think that the ARIN policy only mandates that unresponsive contacts be
clearly identified, and no further actions are taken.

--
Shane