[anti-abuse-wg] [policy-announce] 2017-02 Review Phase (Regular abuse-c Validation)

Dear Jordi,

Thank you for your question.

On 2018-01-18 19:44:51 CET, Jordi Palet Martinez wrote:
> HOWEVER, I’ve a question regarding the impact analysis, and specially this sentence:
> 
> “To increase efficiency, this process will use an automated solution that will allow the validation of “abuse-mailbox:” attributes without sending an email. No action will be needed by resource holders that have configured their “abuse-mailbox:” attribute correctly.”
> 
> Reading the policy proposal, how the NCC concludes that it should be “without sending an email”?
> 

During the initial discussion phase and also during the Anti-Abuse WG 
session at RIPE 75, several people stated that forcing providers to 
reply to the RIPE NCC doesn't ensure that they will respond to 
actual abuse reports. At the same time, such a policy requirement would 
create additional workload to all providers. For these reasons, the proposers decided to remove such a requirement in v2.0 of their proposal.

The RIPE NCC will focus on the technical accuracy of abuse contact 
emails. These checks can be done without the need to send an email. 
Validating that an abuse mailbox attribute is correctly configured
ensures that abuse reports can reach their destination.

The way that abuse reports are handled by the receiving party is 
usually defined by the internal procedures of the providers and not by RIPE 
Policies.

I hope this clarifies.

Kind regards,
Marco Schmidt
Policy Development Officer
RIPE NCC

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