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

> 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.

spot on, sad to say.

randy