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[anti-abuse-wg] Enabling community self-help?
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Shane Kerr
shane at time-travellers.org
Thu Mar 29 10:53:28 CEST 2012
All, warning: crazy idea time Does it seem like a good idea to provide a way to attach "user comments" to network information? Background... Some people want someone to force ISP's to take responsibility for fixing abuse originating in their networks. The natural place for this enforcement appears to them to be the RIPE NCC (*). Contrariwise, the RIPE NCC is unable to unwilling to change its role from a fundamentally administrative to one that involves setting network usage policies. This involves risks in terms of anti-trust regulators, need to carefully define the limits of control, and setting up what amounts to a industry legal system (with both judges and police). Plus it is hard to get the RIPE NCC membership to support mechanisms which cost them money and limit their freedoms. On the 3rd hand, some people in the RIPE community (including me) also feel that it is very, very difficult to define what the required actions would be in the case of reported abuse. This reporting mechanism itself might indeed be a source of abuse (rivalries between companies could be fought by each accusing the other of hosting criminal activity). Crazy Idea... Lets crowd-source it. Maybe it makes sense to make something like a web forum for each allocated resource, or perhaps for the organization responsible for each. It could be something like a blog article with the contact and other information about each resource, and then a way to post comments about it. So, you might see that ISP ShaNet has working e-mail for abuse, but nobody ever sees any action beyond automated response. Such reports could be useful for people who *can* investigate and do something, such as law enforcement or regulators. A few decades of Internet forums have given us best practices in terms of policing forums for spam and abuse, for evaluating user trustworthiness and helpfulness, and for evaluating the value of individual comments or replies (+1). I think something like this would be within the realm of things that the RIPE NCC could provide. We could link to these pages from the WHOIS results (or go straight there for web queries perhaps). There are lots of web sites which publish consumer evaluations of various companies and products, so this really is not so different. -- Shane (*) Well, normally confused with RIPE (or Ripe). But the RIPE NCC is what they mean.
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