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

2020-01-15 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 07:23:38AM +, Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg wrote: > I obviously don't speak for the incident handling community, but i think > this (making it optional) would be a serious step back. The current > situation is already very bad when in some cases we know from

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

2020-01-15 Thread Serge Droz via anti-abuse-wg
Hi All So maybe a word from an "Incident Responder". I do feel very much, that we should have an abuse conntact, and it should be tested to wok, in the sense that some one reads the mail sent there. Here are my reasons: - Having such a mailbox may increase the pressure for orgs to actually do s

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

2020-01-15 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 09:14:59AM +0100, Serge Droz via anti-abuse-wg wrote: > I kind of don't buy into "There is no point on placing a burden on orgs > that choose not to act". This is not what I said. My stance on this is: placing extra burdens on orgs *that do the right thing today* (wit

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

2020-01-15 Thread Serge Droz via anti-abuse-wg
Hi Gert Sorry I misunderstood you then. But honestly, this does not really place a burden on you. RIPE can automate this, and you simply reply to a message. We do this, e.g. in TF-CSIRT twice a year, and it does help, event the good guys, that realize they have an issue and did not receive their

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

2020-01-15 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 09:24:21AM +0100, Serge Droz wrote: > Sorry I misunderstood you then. But honestly, this does not really place > a burden on you. It does. Even if it's just 5 minutes per Mail - I need to train abuse handlers what to do with this sort of message, etc. > So I think t

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

2020-01-15 Thread Sérgio Rocha
Hi, Maybe we can change the approach. If RIPE website had a platform to post abuse report, that send the email for the abuse contact, it will be possible to evaluate the responsiveness of the abuse contact. This way anyone that report an abuse could assess not only the response but also the effec

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

2020-01-15 Thread Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg
On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, Gert Doering wrote: Hi, Hi, (please see inline) On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 07:23:38AM +, Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg wrote: I obviously don't speak for the incident handling community, but i think this (making it optional) would be a serious step back. The cur

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

2020-01-15 Thread Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg
Hi Sergio, All, It seems you are proposing a new reputation system, to be managed by the RIPE NCC. If this is the case, you can always try to draft a new policy proposal :-) Cheers, Carlos On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, Sérgio Rocha wrote: Hi, Maybe we can change the approach. If RIPE website ha

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

2020-01-15 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <20200115080615.gq72...@space.net>, Gert Doering wrote: >So why is it preferrable to send mails which are not acted on, as >opposed to "not send mail because you know beforehand that the other >network is not interested"? Not sure that I understand fully the context of the question h

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

2020-01-15 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <02d201d5cb84$89d6b950$9d842bf0$@makeitsimple.pt>, "=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio_Rocha?=" wrote: >Maybe we can change the approach. >If RIPE website had a platform to post abuse report, that send the email for >the abuse contact, it will be possible to evaluate the responsiveness of the >a

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 Members,

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

2020-01-15 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg
Hi Nick, Not really, I think you're reading a different text ... I'm not intending to ask RIPE to verify if the operators resolve the abuse cases. The point here is to amend the existing policy to do a *good* validation of the abuse mailbox. The actual policy only makes a "technical" validatio

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 Brian Nisbet
Folks, While not attempting to discuss the merits or otherwise of a reputation system (other than the fact I've seen many of them proposed and we still have lots of problems), I would say one thing on your comments below, Ronald. The RIPE NCC service region is not just the EU, it isn't just th

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

2020-01-15 Thread Richard Clayton
In message <44130.1579053...@segfault.tristatelogic.com>, Ronald F. Guilmette writes >That comment, and that concern, certainly does not seem to apply in any >country in which either eBay or TripAdvisor operate. > >Do you folks on your side of the pond not receive eBay? Are you not able to >view

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

2020-01-15 Thread Richard Clayton
In message <02d201d5cb84$89d6b950$9d842bf0$@makeitsimple.pt>, =?iso- 8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio_Rocha?= writes >Maybe we can change the approach. >If RIPE website had a platform to post abuse report, that send the email for >the abuse contact, it will be possible to evaluate the responsiveness of the >abu

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

2020-01-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Applause. --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Richard Clayton Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 8:32 PM To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") In message <02d201d5cb84$89d6

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

2020-01-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Is Dutch law really the inhibitor here? Or the possibilities that Richard outlined? I seem to recall previous opta nl proposals that took a sensible view of network abuse, some years back --srs From: anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Brian Nisbet Sent: Wednesday,

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

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

2020-01-15 Thread Leo Vegoda
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 12:16 AM Serge Droz via anti-abuse-wg wrote: [...] > - Lastly: It makes our life as Incident responders easier to have a > uniform way of sending reports, even if not all of them are followed up. This is an excellent point but e-mail is probably not the right medium for

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

2020-01-15 Thread Leo Vegoda
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 9:25 AM Jeffrey Race wrote: > > e-mail must be allowed because most victims > are not organizations but individual net users E-mail does not scale well. It was great in the 1990s, when the Internet was smaller and people knew each other. About half the world's population n

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

2020-01-15 Thread Randy Bush
> To an extreme, there should always be a known contact responsible for > any network infrastructure. there are, admin and tech randy, not advocating for or against abuse-c

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

2020-01-15 Thread Randy Bush
> 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 Members, Deregistration of Internet > Resources and Legacy Internet Resources" document (currently RIPE > 716), if you don't comply with RIPE policie

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

2020-01-15 Thread Leo Vegoda
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:02 AM Jeffrey Race wrote: [...] > Aside from the reciprocity issue, it's a basic engineering rule > that systems target their goal only when a corrective > feedback path exists. That feedback path does not need to be a personally written e-mail. Instead, it is possibl

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

2020-01-15 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:45:10AM -0800, Leo Vegoda wrote: > While I would accept Gert's proposal for making abuse-c an optional > attribute, the reason I offered a counter proposal for publishing "a > statement to the effect that the network operator does not act on > abuse reports" is to ad

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

2020-01-15 Thread Warren Kumari
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 2:46 PM Leo Vegoda wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:02 AM Jeffrey Race wrote: > > [...] > > > Aside from the reciprocity issue, it's a basic engineering rule > > that systems target their goal only when a corrective > > feedback path exists. > > That feedback path doe

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

2020-01-15 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg
This is the key point. We already agreed to have a mandatory abuse-c. We can change our mind and make it optional. But one way or the other, should be a *real* one. A validation that can be faked just using (for example) Carlos email, is not a good procedure. It doesn't make sense at all. We

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

2020-01-15 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg
I couldn't stop laughing for more than 30 minutes ... this is what they call (and they pay for) laughter therapy ? Tks! El 14/1/20 12:52, "anti-abuse-wg en nombre de Ronald F. Guilmette" escribió: In message <671286eb-7fad-4d70-addd-efa0a680b...@consulintel.es>, JORDI PALET MART

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

2020-01-15 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <9ew8xocpiyhef...@highwayman.com>, Richard Clayton wrote: >these (which are the most interesting parts of the Communications >Decency Act that did not get invalidated by the application of the First >Amendment which swept away much of it) provide a safe harbour for the >people operati

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

2020-01-15 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg
Hi Ronald, El 14/1/20 13:10, "anti-abuse-wg en nombre de Ronald F. Guilmette" escribió: In message <30174d32-225f-467e-937a-5bc42650f...@consulintel.es>, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg wrote: >I think if we try to agree on those ratings, we will never reach consensu

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

2020-01-15 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg
In my opinion, the actual situation is the worst. We are validating over "nothing". We don't know how many of the "validated" mailboxes are real, or even read, full, etc. I will prefer a mandatory abuse-c which is validated in the way I'm proposing, as it is being done in ARIN and APNIC and soo

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

2020-01-15 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg
Exactly 2 minutes a year (1 minute each time you click the link in the email from RIPE NCC). And because you invest 2 minutes a year, you will save a lot of time (many hours/days) yourself, trying to report abuses to invalid mailboxes! El 15/1/20 9:24, "anti-abuse-wg en nombre de Serge Droz

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

2020-01-15 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg
What we do today is not a validation if I can use Gert or Serge or any "null" email in all my abuse contacts and nobody notice it, and then you start getting abuse reports from other folks ... This is creating lots of wasted time to both you and the abuse case reporters. El 15/1/20 9:59, "an

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

2020-01-15 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg
Hi Leo, El 15/1/20 18:09, "anti-abuse-wg en nombre de Leo Vegoda" escribió: On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 12:16 AM Serge Droz via anti-abuse-wg wrote: [...] > - Lastly: It makes our life as Incident responders easier to have a > uniform way of sending reports, even if

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

2020-01-15 Thread Carlos Friaças via anti-abuse-wg
Hi, On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg wrote: In my opinion, the actual situation is the worst. We are validating over "nothing". We don't know how many of the "validated" mailboxes are real, or even read, full, etc. I will prefer a mandatory abuse-c which is vali

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

2020-01-15 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg
Hi Warren, When some operators aren't responding to abuse cases, or when they are bouncing emails, or you get a response from someone telling "sorry I'm not the right contact for this, the email is mistaken", and many other similar situations ... the operator is telling you "we don't care about

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

2020-01-15 Thread Job Snijders
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 10:41:54PM +0100, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg wrote: > Exactly 2 minutes a year (1 minute each time you click the link in the > email from RIPE NCC). > > And because you invest 2 minutes a year, you will save a lot of time > (many hours/days) yourself, trying to

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

2020-01-15 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg
Hi Job, You need to have that process already for ARIN and APNIC, and once implemented LACNIC. The process is the same. You implement it once (I'm not counting the minutes that can take to implement it) and it seems simple to me: the abuse-mailbox get twice a year a verification email, a respo

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

2020-01-15 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message Leo Vegoda wrote: >E-mail does not scale well. It was great in the 1990s, when the >Internet was smaller and people knew each other. About half the >world's population now has some sort of Internet connectivity. >Expecting organizations to be able to understand reports from such a >d

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

2020-01-15 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg
Hi Carlos, El 15/1/20 22:58, "Carlos Friaças" escribió: Hi, On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via anti-abuse-wg wrote: > In my opinion, the actual situation is the worst. We are validating over "nothing". We don't know how many of the "vali

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

2020-01-15 Thread Fi Shing
That is the most stupid thing i've read on this list. What little protection the world has from spammers and all manner of criminals, and you still think it's too much that they even so much as have to check their email account. Which criminal is paying you to say this nonsense, because no or

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

2020-01-15 Thread Fi Shing
Sergio, that would make too much sense. This mailing list is not only not even considering what you have said, but they are trying to remove the requirement of a network operator to even receive emails about complaints at all. Pathetic. It's the year 2019, and these "people" on this list (p

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

2020-01-15 Thread Fi Shing
correction: year 2020* - Original Message - Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] working in new version of 2019-04 (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") From: "Fi Shing" Date: 1/16/20 10:03 am To: "anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net" Sergio, that would make too much sense. This mailing list is not o

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

2020-01-15 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <58ece9f6-4d64-4315-8ee5-88574f6b4...@consulintel.es>, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: >Right, and that was a part of my point about eBay-like feedback ratings >for resource holders, i.e. "Let's not even try." >Instead, let the people decide. Let anyone register a feedback po

[anti-abuse-wg] Fresh News from the Dark Continent

2020-01-15 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
This was to be expected, but it is good to know that it really did happen. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/335226-here-are-the-police-charges-filed-in-the-great-african-ip-address-heist.html I have high hopes for the new AFRINIC CEO. Quite obviously, he is not at all tained by the sins o

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

2020-01-15 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <68c5238d-b796-45b9-8735-5849140dc...@consulintel.es>, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: >When some operators aren't responding to abuse cases, or when they are boun= >cing emails, or you get a response from someone telling "sorry I'm not the = >right contact for this, the email is mistaken

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

2020-01-15 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <20200115155949.af7f9f79718891d8e76b551cf73e1563.e548b98006.mailapi@ email19.asia.godaddy.com>, "Fi Shing" wrote: >That is the most stupid thing i've read on this list. Well, I think you shouldn't be quite so harsh in your judgement. It is not immediately apparent that you have been

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

2020-01-15 Thread Richard Clayton
In message <49348.1579123...@segfault.tristatelogic.com>, Ronald F. Guilmette writes >I reiterate and slightly rehprase my question: > >Do you people in within the RIPE region see, or not see critical reviews >on, for example, eBay, TripAdvisor, etc? we do, but we do not see material which is li

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

2020-01-15 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Richard Clayton wrote: >bottom line is that if you want to run a reputation site and not be >under an obligation to remove libellous material (not fair comment) you >would be unwise to do it outside the USA As much as I would like to claim, on behalf of my countrymen, an absolutely

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

2020-01-15 Thread Leo Vegoda
Hi Jordi, On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 1:54 PM JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: [...] > This is an excellent point but e-mail is probably not the right medium > for that. Standardizing protocols for reporting abuse - and therefore > acting on those reports more quickly - would be far more hel

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

2020-01-15 Thread Fi Shing
>> Best not to judge the race until it has been fully run. I just do not understand how anyone on this list (other than a criminal or a business owner that wants to reduce over heads by abolishing an employee who has to sit and monitor an abuse desk) could be talking about making it easier f

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

2020-01-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
It would be interesting if a large number of people who actually work for the security / infosec / abuse teams of various ripe members were to attend the aawg meetings instead of a clutch of mostly IP / dns / network people. That won’t take away the impact of organisations that don’t want to do