Re: [anti-spam-wg] Any suggestions about how to deal with non co-operative ISP's and RIR's ?

[Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda@localhost]

Mouse,

On Apr 2, 2007, at 11:23 PM, der Mouse wrote:

[...]

> Revoking an assignment at the IANA-to-RIR level would be an extreme
> step; I'd expect it to be taken only when other measures have failed.
> But it seems to me that they *have* failed; there is rampant
> irresponsibility - or at least behaviour that looks like that to me -
> at the RIR level.  At least two RIRs don't - or historically  
> haven't; I
> haven't checked recently - enforce contactability of address block
> holders, making it easy for abusers to get space and duck any
> responsibility for its use.  RIPE, at least, flatly refuses - or at
> least has refused - to take any action against address block assignees
> who don't police their assignments; I haven't had occasion to push it
> as high as the RIR with other RIRs, so I don't know how they are in
> this regard.  (The abuse I see most often is spamming and spam  
> support,
> but I feel quite sure that's an artifact of my perspective more than
> anything else.)

Until there are policies defining these terms and the mechanisms you  
want for revoking allocations there is no basis for action. If you  
want IANA to be able to revoke allocations made to RIRs then you will  
need to develop a global policy that has the support of the  
communities in all five RIR regions.

To start you just need to complete the policy proposal template. The  
RIPE template can be found here:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/template/

Regards,

--
Leo Vegoda
IANA Numbers Liaison