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

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:22:28PM +0100, Marco Schmidt wrote:
>The RIPE NCC has prepared an impact analysis on this latest proposal version to support the community’s discussion. You can find the full proposal and impact analysis at:
>https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2017-02

It would appear that some participants have issues with
comprehensive reading. The Impact Assessment states:

"The RIPE NCC has no mandate to interfere with the internal abuse
handling procedures of resource holders."

I fail to understand how understanding this sentence can lead to
demands such as "The recipients must solve captchas and click
checkboxes". 

Apart from that, such demands can, presumably, only be made by
those who have never operated a production network. Many
operators feed abuse/support emails into a ticket system or
otherwise automate the process. There are also those who do not
use a web browser to read emails. And, regardless of the above,
there are the security issues raised in the thread.

Therefore, unless there is a guarantee that such impractical and,
frankly, ridiculous proposals cannot be backdoored into this policy
via the implementation process, I will have no choice but to
oppose this proposal in toto.

Kind Regards,
Sascha Luck