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

Am 14.12.11 10:43, schrieb Shane Kerr:
> 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.

If that is the case, that there is no other action than publishing the
information in whois it is imho not enough. RIPE NCC already has
processes in place that contact maintainers and try to solve the open
issues together. If that does not work deregistration processes can be
started. This in addition with the annual process is imho a pretty good
way to increase data accuracy in the database.

Thanks,

Tobias

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abusix

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