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

In message <862A73D42343AE49B2FC3C32FDDFE91C5A6CA1CD at E2010-MBX04.exchange2010.n
l>, Erik Bais <erik at bais.name> 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

Although generally speaking I virtually never take issue with Spamhaus'
rationale on those rare occasions when they actually work up the gumption
to actually list somebody, let alone on those even rarer occasions when
they elect to escalate a listing to relevant providers, I will say that
regardless of whether I personally might agree or disagree with what
Spamhaus did in this case, I am not persuaded that many would, after
reading the published reports of this event, characterize this as Spamhaus'
finest hour.

It would be better, I think, if RIPE would be more pro-active in dealing
with its own dirty laundry, rather than waiting around and relying on
Spanhaus, who, as spammers are always eager to point out, nobody elected,
to take out the garbage.  But as I said in my prior posting, that just
does not seem to be the cards, politically, at the present time.


Regards,
rfg