ISP Whitelist (was Re: NOC contact for he.net)

Thu Jul 3 16:25:40 UTC 2003

> I have lost my copy of the contact list for the NOCs.  Can someone
> supply the contact ingo for he.net?

This is probably as good a time as any to mention that we have just 
inaugurated our ISPWL (dns-based ISP whitelist), the "HISP".  It's 
relevant to this because members provide both standard business 
and urgent contact information, as well as "member to member 
only" contact information, for sharing with other members [note, we 
do *not* get involved in issues, we simply make the contact 
information available to other HISP members.]  So in this case, if 
he.net is a HISP member, Roy could have gone to the HISP 
members contact page and looked up the information, including 
urgent contact information.

Obviously the primary thrust of the HISP is to allow sites to query a 
DNS whitelist of ISPs who they can know to be whitehat, and who 
live up to a certain level of abuse-handling and other criteria 
(defined in the free license).

There is no charge whatsoever for being listed on the HISP, or for 
querying it.  

If you're interested in reviewing the criteria for acceptance onto the 
HISP (contained in a HISP license which, again, is free), contact me 
off-list.

Anne
amitchell at habeas.com