[anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

Gert Doering wrote on 16/05/2019 21:47:
> No positive effect, but lots of negative side-effects.

Abuse mailboxes are already checked.  What matters for abuse management 
is whether reports are acted on.  This policy doesn't address that.

If the RIPE NCC is instructed to send 6-monthly reminders to all abuse 
contacts with the implicit threat that if they aren't acted on in the 
way specified in this policy, that the organisation in question can look 
forward to having their addressing resources vapourised, this will 
aggravate the RIPE NCC membership and corrode community trust in the 
organisation.  The one thing it won't do is make abuse management better.

Internet abuse management is not something that you're going to fix by 
beating LIRs with sticks, and if they don't react, that you threaten to 
beat them harder.

Separate to this, it's inappropriate to micromanage the NCC in RIPE 
policy.  It would be good if the RIPE working groups stopped trying to 
tell the RIPE NCC people how to do their jobs.

Nick