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

Hi Jordi,

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 1:54 PM JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
<jordi.palet at consulintel.es> wrote:

[...]

>     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.
>
> This is an additional step. Do you think it may be better to include in the proposal, instead of plain email for the reporting, to mandate the use of XARF?
>
> http://xarf.org/index.html
>
> I've been tempted several times to go that path ... so may be is time for it?

Communicating information about abuse incidents using structured data
is exactly the right way to go. E-mail is becoming less useful as each
year goes by and continuing to invest in systems that assume e-mail is
ubiquitous does not seem a good use of resources to me.

Kind regards,

Leo