[anti-abuse-wg] New Abuse Information on RIPE NCC Website

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote the following on 21/06/2013 13:07:
> On Friday, June 21, 2013, Erik Bais wrote:
>
>
>     For those that want to read up on what actually happened on that
>     specific incident in Latvia (July/August 2010), have a read on the
>     following open letter from CERT.lv
>
>     https://cert.lv/uploads/uploads/OpenLetter.pdf
>
>     Erik Bais
>
> To maintain some balance on an issue that involved blocking one ISP (not
> "all of latvia") that was hosting bot spammers for a very long time
> indeed .. a couple of other articles.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/13/spamhaus_latvia/
>
> And an assessment of this situation from another organization- Trend
> Micro, which can, in some cases, be seen as competing with spamhaus
> (they after all acquired the original MAPS RBL lists)
>
> http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/spamhaus-listing-rightfully-lists-latvian-hoster/
>
> Quite frankly my sympathies are not with nic.lv <http://nic.lv> in this
> matter.

It is a complicated situation and while I'm not necessarily a fan of the 
action taken or how it played out, my initial comment was overly glib. 
My intent was to point out that wide reaching actions have been taken in 
the past and I apologise for the remark. I have no particular with to 
reignite nor insert myself into that argument.

Brian