Re: [anti-spam-wg] abuse address field ?

[Brian Nisbet <brian.nisbet@localhost]

Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:02:28PM +0100, Brian Nisbet wrote:
> > > Comments ?
> > > Was something like this already discussed on the group ?
> > Similar things have been discussed many times, but, as yet,
> > nobody has put together a concrete proposal for submission
> > to the RIPE PDP.  Ideas discussed anywhere, good or bad,
> > will never even have a chance of becoming policy unless they
> > are submitted as same.
> >
> > http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/index.html
>
> Actually there was a policy proposal to (vaguely) "enforce a working
> abuse contact for every LIR!".
>
> When trying to actually specify what that is, and how to enforce it, the
> discussion went nowhere and the proposer withdrew the proposal.

I would argue that it was not, in that case, a concrete proposal, but
that is semantics rather than anything useful to add!

Frank, it is well worth looking at withdrawn policies like

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2006-04.html

while thinking about all of this.

Brian.