<div dir="ltr">Hi Mike,<div><br></div><div>I think asking if such a list comes from scraping the DB should be part of a brokers due diligence, should it not? If for nothing else than as a matter of civility towards those you are contacting.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Tim.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Mike Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@iptrading.com" target="_blank">mike@iptrading.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_8153532191453371593WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hello Alex,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">As a broker, LIR, and contact for some address blocks in RIPE and ARIN, I receive these solicitations as well, and it is particularly bothersome getting solicited from other brokers who should know better.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I would support administrative action against LIRs or registered brokers at RIPE who abuse the DB, but what if these people are buying a list of email addresses which they are not aware was scraped from the DB? Would that offer some defense?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Mike Burns<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> members-discuss [mailto:<a href="mailto:members-discuss-bounces@ripe.net" target="_blank">members-discuss-<wbr>bounces@ripe.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alex Lobachov<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 07, 2017 5:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:members-discuss@ripe.net" target="_blank">members-discuss@ripe.net</a></span></p><div><div class="h5"><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [members-discuss] Database Abuse<u></u><u></u></div></div><p></p></div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Good day,<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I’m all for administrative actions to LIR members (usually guys who are involved in ipv4 transfers) who are found guilty of using the DB with commercial goals.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Closing the LIR might be the appropriate (yet quite aggressive one) action for them.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Comments?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br>--<br>Alex Lobachov<br>Telenet, sia<br>Network Systems Engineer<br>LinkedIn: <a href="https://lv.linkedin.com/in/allxll" target="_blank">https://lv.linkedin.com/in/<wbr>allxll</a><br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:alxl@telenet.lv" target="_blank">alxl@telenet.lv</a><br>Skype: alxl__<br>Direct office: <a href="tel:+371%2067%20886%20224" value="+37167886224" target="_blank">+371 67886224</a><br>Office: <a href="tel:+371%2067%20711%20111" value="+37167711111" target="_blank">+371 67711111</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> <a href="mailto:t.armstrong@nerdalize.com" title="t.armstrong@nerdalize.com" target="_blank">Tim Armstrong</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> Thursday, September 7, 2017 11:17 AM<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> <a href="mailto:vegard@monsternett.no" title="vegard@monsternett.no" target="_blank">Vegard Svanberg</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Cc:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> <a href="mailto:members-discuss@ripe.net" title="members-discuss@ripe.net" target="_blank">members-discuss@ripe.net</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> Re: [members-discuss] Database Abuse<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Or if your details are in the list and / or you are a technical contact attached to an LIR then you can see everything. <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Only non-technical / non-LIR people can't access it.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Perhaps use passing the RIPE DB Training course as a requirement for access.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">On 7 Sep 2017 10:06 am, "Vegard Svanberg" <<a href="mailto:vegard@monsternett.no" target="_blank">vegard@monsternett.no</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">* Tim Armstrong <<a href="mailto:t.armstrong@nerdalize.com" target="_blank">t.armstrong@nerdalize.com</a>> [2017-09-05 10:36]:<br><br>> I hate to bring this subject up again, but is there really nothing<br>> structural we can do about this? <br>> At a minimum we could occlude e-mail addresses from the public DB,<br>> instead having public complaint submitted via a webform on the NCC<br>> website, requiring the uninitiated to realise this is an abuse /<br>> complaint contact, not a sales opportunity.<br><br>I understand the problem (and get those pitches myself nearly daily). I<br>have no alternative, simple solutions. I also haven't thought this<br>through in detail. :-) However, and despite all that: I'd oppose the<br>idea of hiding/obfuscating emails and centralising/limiting feedback<br>loops to the NCC website. I'm concerned about the operational<br>consequences of limiting the opportunity to collect emails and build and<br>maintain lists of contact points (potentially) important for operations.<br><br>And if we remove just emails, we'd probably have to do the same with<br>phone numbers. They're calling from time to time as well.<br><br>Again, I haven't thought this through, but it's the knee-jerk response<br>anyway. Perhaps naming, shaming and blacklisting the offenders might be<br>a better way to go. Perhaps verified members could get regular database<br>dumps (including contact info) from other sources, or authenticate<br>against the db to get the whole lot. I don't know. I'm not sure the<br>problem is big enough to warrant any major changes.<br><br>--<br>-o) Vegard Svanberg, MD - Monsternett (<a href="http://www.monsternett.no" target="_blank">www.monsternett.no</a>)<br>/\\ Violgata 3A, N-1776 HALDEN, NORWAY<br>_\_v Phone: <a href="tel:%28%2B47%29%2069701802" target="_blank">(+47) 69701802</a> | Fax: <a href="tel:%28%2B47%29%2069701801" target="_blank">(+47) 69701801</a><br><br><br>----<br>If you don't want to receive emails from the RIPE NCC members-discuss<br>mailing list, please log in to your LIR Portal account and go to the general page:<br><a href="https://lirportal.ripe.net/general/" target="_blank">https://lirportal.ripe.net/<wbr>general/</a><br><br>Click on "Edit my LIR details", under "Subscribed Mailing Lists". 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Click on "Edit my LIR details", under "Subscribed Mailing Lists". From here, you can add or remove addresses.<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><img src="https://drive.google.com/a/nerdalize.com/uc?id=0B0EM3I3SZxdsdnBncG41WkNSeWp2V3I5Q0NubGVOaUxFNWx3&export=download" width="96" height="31"><br></div><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="2">Tim Armstrong</font><br></b><font color="#888888">Dark Lord of Network Operations<br></font><font color="#999999" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="tel:+31617544472" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">+31 6 175 444 72</a></font></span></span></pre></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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