[anti-abuse-wg] working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 12:16 AM Serge Droz via anti-abuse-wg
<anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net> wrote:

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> - Lastly: It makes our life as Incident responders easier to have a
> uniform way of sending reports, even if not all of them are followed up.

This is an excellent point but e-mail is probably not the right medium
for that. Standardizing protocols for reporting abuse - and therefore
acting on those reports more quickly - would be far more helpful. But
only organizations don't want abuse on their networks will invest in
the people, processes, and systems, whatever the reporting medium.

> I kind of don't buy into "There is no point on placing a burden on orgs
> that choose not to act".

It's not about the burden on the organizations that don't want to act.
It's about providing a clear signal to the reporting organizations
that there is no point reporting. That should allow reporting
organizations to decide on next steps more quickly.