While I think you are on the right track, Andrew, I think that standardizing 
the format and API is outside of ARIN’s remit and suggest that OPSAWG might be 
a good place
to achieve that.

Owen


> On Oct 26, 2021, at 17:33 , Andrew Dul <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Email as a reporting mechanism does seem old these days.
> 
> I'd might be ok with a URL, but not just "any URL" if the community is really 
> interested in improving reporting, we likely need a structured data format 
> and API so that input can be better used by those receiving the reports.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> On 10/26/21 2:59 PM, John Santos wrote:
>> My domain has a valid abuse contact (me), and it's been years since I 
>> actually received anything except spam.  (I check the spam detector output 
>> daily to make sure it actually is spam, and it always is.  It's usually no 
>> more than a handful of spam emails daily, probably because I never respond 
>> to it or originate any email from the "abuse" address, so there is nothing 
>> for the spammers to harvest.)
>> 
>> Under this new scheme, would I still be able to handle abuse the exact same 
>> way?  Or would we be required to create a web page solely to provide an 
>> email address and phone number for abuse reporting, duplicating what is 
>> already in whois?
>> 
>> BTW, our fairly extensive web site is almost entirely private, with only a 
>> half dozen or so public pages of simple, static information.  Which are 
>> inaccessible if our Internet access or electrical power is down.
>> 
>> In other words, any change for us would be a pain the keister for no 
>> discernible benefit to us or any one else.
>> 
>> Unless this is a NO-OP, my vote is NO.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/26/2021 4:18 PM, ARIN wrote:
>>> On 21 October 2021, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted "ARIN-prop-303: 
>>> Make Abuse Contact Useful" as a Draft Policy.
>>> 
>>> Draft Policy ARIN-2021-7 is below and can be found at:
>>> 
>>> https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2021_7/ 
>>> <https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2021_7/>
>>> 
>>> You are encouraged to discuss all Draft Policies on PPML. The AC will 
>>> evaluate the discussion in order to assess the conformance of this draft 
>>> policy with ARIN's Principles of Internet number resource policy as stated 
>>> in the Policy Development Process (PDP). Specifically, these principles are:
>>> 
>>> * Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration
>>> 
>>> * Technically Sound
>>> 
>>> * Supported by the Community
>>> 
>>> The PDP can be found at:
>>> 
>>> https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/ 
>>> <https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/>
>>> 
>>> Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at:
>>> 
>>> https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/ 
>>> <https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/>
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Sean Hopkins
>>> 
>>> Senior Policy Analyst
>>> 
>>> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
>>> 
>>> Draft Policy ARIN-2021-7: Make Abuse Contact Useful
>>> 
>>> Problem Statement:
>>> 
>>> ARIN’s process of attaching an abuse contact to resource records is of 
>>> limited utility. The phone number is often an unmanned voicemail that 
>>> refers the caller to a web page while the email address is commonly an 
>>> auto-responder which does the same. Because the emails often involve 
>>> problematic content they can get lost in filters making it hard to even 
>>> find the URL let alone get an abuse report to go through. This is further 
>>> exacerbated by folks who write programs to automatically generate 
>>> unverified abuse reports and email them to the ARIN contact, flooding the 
>>> mailbox with useless reports that no human being is assigned to look 
>>> through.
>>> 
>>> With responsible network providers, the process for dealing with network 
>>> abuse instead usually starts with a web page. The web page provides 
>>> instructions and may offer forms for describing the abuse and uploading 
>>> supporting material of the nature that the service provider needs in order 
>>> to take action.
>>> 
>>> It would be helpful for ARIN to support the abuse reporting process they 
>>> actually use.
>>> 
>>> Policy statement:
>>> 
>>> Strike -
>>> 
>>>  From 2.12 “and one valid abuse”
>>> 
>>>  From 3.6.2 “Abuse”
>>> 
>>> Add:
>>> 
>>> 2.1.2 To “organization information must include…zip code equivalent,” add 
>>> “an abuse reporting URL”
>>> 
>>> 4.2.3.7.3.2: replace “upstream Abuse and Technical POCs " with “upstream 
>>> Technical POCs and URLs for reporting abuse”
>>> 
>>> 6.5.5.3.1: replace “upstream Abuse and Technical POCs " with “upstream 
>>> Technical POCs and URLs for reporting abuse”
>>> 
>>> Timetable for implementation: Whenever
>>> 
>>> Anything Else:
>>> 
>>> Initial implementation suggested to replace the abuse POC with a URL 
>>> pointing to ARIN’s display of the same POC record which was used for abuse 
>>> reporting. Should support multiple URLs so that if desired an organization 
>>> can specify both “mailto:somebody@here” and “tel:1234567” if that’s how 
>>> they actually want abuse reported to them.
>>> 
>>> 
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