[anti-abuse-wg] Abuse Reporting Issues

Hi Arnold,

> Since I have been reporting SPAM for some time, missing, out-of-date
> or inaccurate contact information has always been a problem.

Absolutely agree. That is one part of the data accuracy part we want to 
face now.

> A number of contact addresses are listed as some public general mail
> server such as gmail, hotmail etc. All of those are pretty much
> useless. Since RIPE registers the actual user, it should insist on a
> usable contact address at the registering organization.

Same here. Topic on the agenda as well.

> In addition, if this issue is taken seriously, then RIPE ought to
> provide a means of reporting 'abuse' by the registering organization
> of this feature.

There are several things that can be done easily to increase data 
accuracy and others that are more complex. I think abuse-c will already 
increase data accuracy significantly, but yes, we need to figure out 
ways to increase and keep up data quality. Lets go step by step and make 
things happen.

All this is definitively on our agenda in the near future.

Thanks for your feedback.

Tobias