[anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

Serge Droz via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 29/04/2020 16:55:
> So, it's the security guys, saying
> 
>    This may help a bit, but won't solve all problems.
> 
> versus the infrastructure operators saying
> 
>    Beware! This it creating huge costs and will not help at all, and
> answering two mails a year will be our ruin.

The root problem is that the policy proposes to use the RIPE NCC to 
enforce abuse management processes.

The specifics in this iteration of the document are to threaten and then 
act to deregister an organisation's number resources - and thereby 
remove their ability to conduct business - if the organisation declines 
to handle abuse complaints over email.

To be clear, it's a fundamental right in large chunks of the RIPE 
service region to conduct business.  If the RIPE NCC acts to threaten to 
remove this ability to conduct business, there would need to be sound 
legal justification for doing so.

Nick