Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Seeking Input on the Future of the Anti-Abuse Working Group

2024-05-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
Serge, The first step is for the WG to reach some consensus about what it ought to recharter to. There's a bunch of topics for a potential new security-wg which seem to be broadly acceptable to people on the WG, and another set of suggestions relating to telling the RIPE NCC to turn itself

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Seeking Input on the Future of the Anti-Abuse Working Group

2024-05-10 Thread Nick Hilliard
Serge, there's been extensive debate on AAWG over the years about the principles behind your additional suggestions below, but very little consensus. If sanctioning is added to the charter of a new security-wg, this lack of consensus is likely to continue, and the only outcome will be that

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Seeking Input on the Future of the Anti-Abuse Working Group

2024-05-09 Thread Nick Hilliard
I'm in favour of a re-charter along these grounds.  There is an appetite for the wider issue of security, and a place that a RIPE working group could fill. The scope below looks reasonable for re-chartering the anti-abuse working group. Nick mar...@mxdomain.de wrote on 07/05/2024 12:59:

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Seeking Input on the Future of the Anti-Abuse Working Group

2024-03-25 Thread Nick Hilliard
I don't have an issue expanding the scope of the WG by e.g. rechartering as security wg. This would be probably be useful. In relation to lack of progress on WG policy items and repeated circular discussions, most of the these centered on one of two things 1. perceived lack of viability of

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Fwd: [dns-wg] EU: DNS abuse study

2022-02-10 Thread Nick Hilliard
Michele Neylon - Blacknight via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 10/02/2022 10:49: I also find the ridiculously broad definition of abuse so broad that it renders any output without much merit. "It's always DNS!" A comparable style of analysis could find that TCP was a good root cause candidate for

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] On the abuse handling policy of manitu.net (AS34240)

2021-02-20 Thread Nick Hilliard
Volker Greimann wrote on 20/02/2021 00:39: It sounds GDPR legal. After all, they are telling you exactly what will happen with anything that you send there, so by sending it there in full knowledge, you are essentially consenting to that processing of your data. the best that could be said in

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] On the abuse handling policy of manitu.net (AS34240)

2021-02-19 Thread Nick Hilliard
furio ercolessi wrote on 19/02/2021 20:55: This is so absurd, I had to read it twice to make sure that I was not misreading it. They state that they automatically pass all my personal data to abusers if I send a report to them, so that: it's difficult to see how this is fully compatible with

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 196.52.0.0/14 revoked, cleanup efforts needed

2021-01-20 Thread Nick Hilliard
Cynthia Revström via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 20/01/2021 13:40: First of all this mailing list is not intended to discuss individual cases of abuse (especially ones not related to the RIPE NCC), but rather to discuss and develop new methods for dealing with it in general. (Brian, please correct

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Review Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-07-21 Thread Nick Hilliard
Hi Petrit, Petrit Hasani wrote on 20/07/2020 18:46: The financial cost approximation of a proposal is not part of the Impact Analysis and the Policy Development Process, so we have not made a calculation. As too many factors have to be taken into account that we can't estimate realistically at

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Review Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-07-20 Thread Nick Hilliard
Petrit Hasani wrote on 20/07/2020 14:07: As per the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP), the purpose of this four week Review Phase is to continue discussion of the proposal, taking the impact analysis into consideration, and to review the full draft RIPE Policy Document. This is the second

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-05-12 Thread Nick Hilliard
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on 11/05/2020 18:23: All I am asking is that cobblers stick to their last. People with backgrounds in routing and networking are not necessarily the people in their organizations that handle abuse issues. From another point of view, you're asking for the RIPE NCC

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-05-11 Thread Nick Hilliard
Ángel González Berdasco wrote on 11/05/2020 17:08: These are not statistics about online abuse. These are statistics about the contact information registered by RIPE being valid. The statistics thing was something that was inserted into version 3 of the proposal. It's hard to tell what the

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] About "consensus" and "voting"...

2020-05-11 Thread Nick Hilliard
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on 11/05/2020 13:20: I am not entirely sure the discussion has moved all that much in the past decade beyond this exact point - how to pressure ripe to deal with shady actors getting themselves LIR status or appropriating large legacy netblocks belonging to defunct

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] About "consensus" and "voting"...

2020-05-09 Thread Nick Hilliard
Hi Carlos, Carlos Friaças wrote on 09/05/2020 22:25: On Sat, 9 May 2020, Nick Hilliard wrote: Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on 09/05/2020 15:23: Having one might at least lay this discussion to rest once and for all. I?ve seen variants of it for several years now. But imagine if someone

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] About "consensus" and "voting"...

2020-05-09 Thread Nick Hilliard
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on 09/05/2020 15:23: Having one might at least lay this discussion to rest once and for all. I’ve seen variants of it for several years now. But imagine if someone contacted a bunch of their colleagues and said: "look, there's this policy proposal going on in

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-05-08 Thread Nick Hilliard
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 08/05/2020 12:07: [Jordi] The job of the RIPE NCC is to implement the policies agreed by the community. Different folks may consider different pieces of all of our policies as "inappropriate" or "arbitrary" which is fine, mostly. Subject to usual

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Spamming LIR accounts

2020-05-07 Thread Nick Hilliard
Töma Gavrichenkov wrote on 07/05/2020 10:03: What does GDPR have to say about this? You mean the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations / PECR. Spamming is prohibited under article 13. National transcriptions of this legislation have implemented this as a civil offence in some EU

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-04-30 Thread Nick Hilliard
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on 30/04/2020 14:07: What would get discussed in an anti abuse wg? Carrots? Almost all the discussion in AAWG seems to be single-tracked on turning the RIPE NCC registry into a stick. E.g. industry standards / best practices, liaison with other anti-abuse

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-04-30 Thread Nick Hilliard
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on 30/04/2020 13:42: RIPE NCC need not decide whether a behaviour is legal or not in order to prohibit use of resources that it allocates for such behaviour. You're putting the car before the horse. You're assuming that the RIPE NCC has a right to tell

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-04-30 Thread Nick Hilliard
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on 30/04/2020 01:58: Why would I ask about something I am posting as an individual in my personal capacity? because your day job involves abuse / security and in that capacity you may have access to good quality legal resources. I see great pains being taken to

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-04-29 Thread Nick Hilliard
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on 29/04/2020 17:26: Is there anything that stops NCC from doing additional due diligence such as validating abuse issues along with the invalid contact information etc, before taking such a decision? Did you ask your corporate legal counsel for their opinion on

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-04-29 Thread Nick Hilliard
Serge Droz via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 29/04/2020 16:55: So, it's the security guys, saying This may help a bit, but won't solve all problems. versus the infrastructure operators saying Beware! This it creating huge costs and will not help at all, and answering two mails a year will be

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-04-28 Thread Nick Hilliard
Petrit Hasani wrote on 28/04/2020 15:01: A new version of RIPE policy proposal, 2019-04, "Validation of "abuse-mailbox"", is now available for discussion. The updated version of this policy proposal is here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2019-04/draft The proposal has

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Periodic Reminder: List Conduct

2020-01-20 Thread Nick Hilliard
Tõnu Tammer via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 20/01/2020 15:10: According to Oxford Dictionary, consensus means an opinion that all members of a group agree with. generally speaking, internet related groups use the rfc7282 approach to determining consensus. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-01-15 Thread Nick Hilliard
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 15/01/2020 12:38: and allows sending abuse reports You're demanding that resource holders handle abuse reports by email and how to handle that mailbox, i.e. telling them how to run their businesses. It's not appropriate for the RIPE NCC to get

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-01-15 Thread Nick Hilliard
Serge Droz via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 15/01/2020 08:24: So the extra work is what, 10 minutes / year, if the system is setup properly? Serge, The policy proposal here is: if the registry doesn't comply, then it is in explicit violation of RIPE policies. According to the "Closure of

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2020-01-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
Gert Doering wrote on 14/01/2020 10:19: And if it's not going to have the desired effect, do not waste time on it. More to the point, the RIPE number registry should not be used as a stick for threatening to beat people up if they don't comply with our current favourite ideas about how to

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [routing-wg] An arrest in Russia

2020-01-04 Thread Nick Hilliard
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote on 03/01/2020 23:50: Well, RPKI quite certainly beats the hell out of the nothing that we have had in its place for lo these many years now. having used irrdb prefix filtering in production for many years, I respectfully disagree. I certainly believe that in the

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [routing-wg] An arrest in Russia

2020-01-03 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 3 Jan 2020, at 22:41, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > I have been waiting for the right moment to note that although RPKI > has been widely touted, including by myself, as the thing that will in > future save us all Who claimed this? What a strange thing to think. Nick

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 Discussion Phase (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-10-01 Thread Nick Hilliard
Marco Schmidt wrote on 01/10/2019 13:18: As per the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP), the purpose of this four-week Discussion Phase is to discuss the proposal and provide feedback to the proposer. This version addresses none of the issues I brought up with the previous version in May:

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-18 Thread Nick Hilliard
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 18/05/2019 14:32: This will not work. Allowing every resource holder in the world to use their own form means that you need to develop tons of specific reporting tools to match all those specific formats and bring the cost of that to the

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Legality of proposal (apologies)

2019-05-17 Thread Nick Hilliard
Shane Kerr wrote on 17/05/2019 08:45: All I can say is that the law is stupid then, and it SHOULD allow the proposed policy.  fundamentally, it shouldn't. Proportionality is a cornerstone of most legal systems - if you don't have proportionality, you end up with tyranny. The idea of

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")

2019-05-16 Thread Nick Hilliard
Gert Doering wrote on 16/05/2019 21:47: No positive effect, but lots of negative side-effects. Abuse mailboxes are already checked. What matters for abuse management is whether reports are acted on. This policy doesn't address that. If the RIPE NCC is instructed to send 6-monthly

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-19 Thread Nick Hilliard
Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 19/04/2019 15:03: Would you find reasonable to have the rule/policy in place say for 2 or 3 years, and then evaluate its impact/efectiveness...? No. In principle, the proposal is completely broken, antithetical to the RIPE NCC's obligations of being

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-17 Thread Nick Hilliard
Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 17/04/2019 22:13: The main concept is that the RIPE NCC will not have the role to investigate or to judge, following a report. who is liable if a mistake is made? The individuals on the judging panel or the RIPE NCC? Nick

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] anti-abuse-wg Digest, Vol 89, Issue 15

2019-04-04 Thread Nick Hilliard
Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 04/04/2019 21:58: On Thu, 4 Apr 2019, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Wny have Tier 1 providers not stepped up and done a much better job of policing hijacks better than they have done? Not all hijacks reach the so-called DFZ. "Partial visibility" hijacks

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03

2019-04-03 Thread Nick Hilliard
Hank Nussbacher wrote on 02/04/2019 18:54: To the moderators, It could be that numerous people just don't want to get sucked up into an endless discussion about the pros and cons of this proposal and just want to weigh in with their feelings about whether they support the proposal or not.

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-02 Thread Nick Hilliard
Carlos Friaças wrote on 01/04/2019 18:06: << Here you might have forgot to comment about "weaponized IXPs" :-) >> Hi Carlos, No, this was deliberate. I didn't comment because a lot of people are throwing analogies into this discussion which aren't directly relevant to 2019-03. If you want

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-01 Thread Nick Hilliard
Carlos Friaças wrote on 01/04/2019 16:51: But let's also focus on two words: "punishing" -- no, that's not the goal, the goal is to close a clear gap and make people understand that hijacking is not tolerated. The explicit aim of this proposal is that if the expert panel judges that you

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 New Policy Proposal (BGP Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation)

2019-04-01 Thread Nick Hilliard
Gert Doering wrote on 01/04/2019 13:54: Sorry, this is getting ridiculous. It's worse than that: the proposal is that the RIPE NCC weaponises its registry data and turns it into a mechanism for punishing people when they do things that other people don't like. BGP hijacking is just the

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Proposal 2019-03 BGP Hijacking

2019-03-30 Thread Nick Hilliard
Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 30/03/2019 09:17: Perhaps one of the Chairs can shed some light. Hi Carlos, The approach by most if not all RIPE working groups is set out in rfc7282: "On Consensus and Humming in the IETF". It's worth reading this document carefully to understand

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 and over-reach

2019-03-24 Thread Nick Hilliard
Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 24/03/2019 14:32: Also, i have read allegations about a "monopoly" regarding the service region. Afaik, there is a transfer market which contradicts the concept of said "monopoly" (i.e. can't get more addresses from the RIR, then go to the market).

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 and over-reach

2019-03-23 Thread Nick Hilliard
Hank Nussbacher wrote on 23/03/2019 17:23: Purity of concept will result in massive gov't intervention since we will have shown that we don't know how to self-regulate. The voices are already there: https://hackernoon.com/why-the-internet-must-be-regulated-9d65031e7491 If you have an

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 and over-reach

2019-03-23 Thread Nick Hilliard
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 23/03/2019 11:52: El 23/3/19 12:32, "Nick Hilliard" escribió: 1. it's not the job of the RIPE NCC to make up for a short-fall of civil legislation in this area, no matter how distasteful we might find the co

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 and over-reach

2019-03-23 Thread Nick Hilliard
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg wrote on 22/03/2019 22:55: The legal bindings of the NCC already have that for those that don’t follow existing policies, don’t pay bills, etc. So, the proposal is adding in the table a policy for confirming what is a hijack according to the community

[anti-abuse-wg] 2019-03 and over-reach

2019-03-22 Thread Nick Hilliard
The aim of the 2019-03 proposal, as far as I understand it, is to grant the RIPE NCC the authority to make formal judgements about alleged abuse of network resources with the implicit intention that unless the party involved ends the alleged abuse, the RIPE NCC would enforce the judgement by

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [db-wg] The Ongoing Summer of Hijacks: MNT-SERVERSGET / dnsget.top

2018-08-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote on 14/08/2018 21:53: None of them have even had the courtesy to send me a FOAD message in response. Their silence on these matters is deafening. Yes, and there is not a problem with this. The RIPE NCC board of directors are not involved in day-to-day

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [policy-announce] 2017-02 Review Phase (Regular abuse-c Validation)

2018-01-24 Thread Nick Hilliard
Brian Nisbet wrote: > No, it isn't. It's a statement that the process has many steps and that > the NCC both say they do and clearly do whatever they can to not reach > the termination point of the process. I'm not saying it could never > happen, I'm saying that it if happens it's may have been

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [policy-announce] 2017-02 Review Phase (Regular abuse-c Validation)

2018-01-22 Thread Nick Hilliard
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg wrote: > I agree that exaggeration is not useful, and probably we need to have > several clear attempts before turning down a contract, BUT, if we are > talking about proportionality, there are MANY cases of abuses where > the responsible LIRs aren't

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [policy-announce] 2017-02 Review Phase (Regular abuse-c Validation)

2018-01-22 Thread Nick Hilliard
Brian Nisbet wrote: > Well, this is where we keep on coming back to in this conversation. > There are clearly those who wish for the validation to go much further > and others who do not wish it to happen at all. Threading that line is > proving tricky. I, personally, do not see how the ARC could

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2017-02 New Policy Proposal (Regular abuse-c Validation)

2017-10-09 Thread Nick Hilliard
Michele Neylon - Blacknight wrote: > The current situation is that abuse-c can be populated with rubbish. > The email addresses can be completely non-functioning. > That is the real and current issue. the real issue is that this is a complex layer 9 problem inside each organisation, and although

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2017-02: what does it achieve?

2017-09-25 Thread Nick Hilliard
Richard Clayton wrote: > #1 people who set the email address to nowh...@example.com > > #2 people who set the email address to nowh...@unregistereddomain.com > > #3 people who used to own unregistereddomain.com but forgot that email > addresses are using that domain in a RIPE object > > #4

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2017-02: what does it achieve?

2017-09-25 Thread Nick Hilliard
herve.clem...@orange.com wrote: > To be clear regarding the acceptability of the auto-responder: > > It refers to "If no valid reply is received by RIPE NCC within two weeks > (including if the email bounces back), the “abuse-mailbox:” contact > attribute will be marked as invalid" So, to be

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2017-02 New Policy Proposal (Regular abuse-c Validation)

2017-09-14 Thread Nick Hilliard
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > I am sure an impact assessment would work – my point was that a lot > of the criticism so far has been jumping to conclusions over the > impact. That's not an unreasonable comment, but the flip side is also true: the policy makes an a-priori assumption that this is

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] [db-wg] Solving the issue of rogue ROUTE objects in the RIPE Database

2015-11-09 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 06/11/2015 11:55, denis wrote: > STEP 3 > > On a daily basis, for each ROUTE object in the RIPE Database that relates > to an out of region resource, check for the continued existence of that > resource in the appropriate RIR database. If it no longer exists, delete > the ROUTE object from the