[anti-abuse-wg] What if a regional Internet Registry organization lost its authority?

On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, Badguys Killer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This mail is a follow-up to my previous email "What to do when "abuse" email address does not work?" -- a short summary below:
> I found some spams sent to my company came from an IP address under Telefonica Peru.  I sent a complaint email to the e-address found in WHOIS database, but it turned out that the e-address was fake!

We have been doing that on a daily basis (complaints) and several bounce, 
yes. I can look for stats to see roughly what is the bounce %.


> With the help of people here, I managed to contact "hostmaster" of LACNIC who sent an email to someone of Telefonica Peru to request them to update their abuse email address.  That email was sent more than two weeks ago.
> 
> I have just checked but the abuse email address is still not up-to-date.  I started to wonder the real authority of LACNIC over ISP.
> 
> Can a regional Internet Registry organization like LACNIC apply sanction/punishment to ISP if they don't follow International standards?  Personally, I hope the answer is "yes".

*If* they have that on their policy set. I'm unaware about that.


> But what if these organizations actually have no real authority?  That means the Internet is one step forward to anarchy?

Or two, or three :/


> Hmm, some matter of reflection for our future.

Oddly enough i think a lot of people feel very comfortable with all this 
anarchy :/


Regards,
Carlos