[db-wg] [anti-abuse-wg] objection to RIPE policy proposal 2016-01

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 09:00:27AM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:

>The relevant question for the PDP is "does 2016-01 help achieve
>the goal of better combatting Internet abuse"?

In its current implementation, abuse-c: is not only useless, it's
potentially harmful.

-Either abuse-c: is nothing but a convenience for ops, in which
case it shouldn't be mandatory or
-abuse-c: is an important part of registry documentation in which
case the NCC should ensure that whatever information in there
points to someone who *handles abuse*

The latter would actually amount to NCC telling registries how to
manage their network - they MUST have abuse-handlers and they
MUST publish their contact data. Where does it say that in the
contract and how would it be enforced towards ERX holders who
don't *have* a contract?

In either case, "We will put in any old email address we have in
our records for your org unless you fill it in yourself" is not
good enough.

rgds,
Sascha Luck