[anti-abuse-wg] 2011-06 Discussion Period extended until 7 May 2012 (Abuse Contact Management in the RIPE NCC Database)

Brian Nisbet wrote:
> Leo,

Hi Brian,

> Is it abuse contact management, is it data verification? Part of the
> problem that we hit with the ACM-TF is that data verification is a very
> big thing

Well, technical is very easy, implementation of the test took only
about 1 hours here, and you can test the email addresses from
all objects at RIPE in (estimated) one day, so a weekly
check is no problem at all. Does not even take high resources.

> and people have a lot of reactions to it.

Could you explain what problems you see here with reactions ?

We did the following two days ago:

- we checked all email addresses from inetnum objects from the RIPE
   region we did send an abuse report to during 2011/12 for
   syntax, domain, MX and A record and mailserver availability
   - about 50.000 different email addresses
   - took about 8 hours
   - nearly no extra CPU load on a quite old server that does
     at lot of other things
- found 6% to be not valid (mostly because they simply changed)
- re-read the inetnum objects via whois
- validated them again

The tests left us with about 1,5% of technical wrong contact
addresses.
This is NOT counting objects that have no email address at all
(thats a different task, but surely will disappear when the
  abuse-c is in place).

Do you think that the LIRs would complain, if the NCC asks
the maintainer with an automatic email to updated his or her objects ?
Cannot imagine it, because they DID supply an email address,
its simply wrong (old, forgotten or typing mistake or
deliberatly wrong).


Well, we surely found some that are deliberatly wrong
(funny things like xxx at xxx.xx), what just reminds me,
that another test should be, if the TLD is valid ;o)


Kind regards, Frank


>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian.
>
>
>


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