Dealing with abuse complaints to non-existent contacts

Mon Aug 11 03:04:22 UTC 2014

Good luck getting action from foreign LE through the mlat system

You might get a response, oh, in the next two years or so. IF you can find
local LE willing to push the case forward.

Beyond that while RIRs are not the internet police they do owe it to the
community to be more vigilant on dud contact addresses, and also do a lot^W
bit more due diligence when allocating IP space, and when appointing LIRs.
 On 11-Aug-2014 6:37 am, "Mark Andrews" <marka at isc.org> wrote:

>
> In message <CB3CA09E-B16F-4101-AEC2-AEE12C982400 at delong.com>, Owen DeLong
> writes:
> >
> > On Aug 10, 2014, at 1:28 PM, goemon at anime.net wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, Paul S. wrote:
> > >> It would appear you've done your part in trying to reach out (and
> > >> subsequently failed), so the next step to go is dropping all traffic
> from
> > >> it.
> > >>
> > >> Nothing wrong with trying to protect your own customer from people who
> > >> cannot be bothered to do their own due diligence.
> > >
> > > It would be nice if allocations would be revoked due to invalid/fake
> > > contact info.
> > >
> > > -Dan
> >
> > I kind of agree, but past efforts in this regard have not met with
> > consensus from the ARIN community.
> >
> > If you believe this to be the case, I suggest putting it into template
> > format and submitting to policy at arin.net.
> >
> > I'm happy to help if you would like. Subscribing to arin-ppml will allow
> > you to participate in the community discussion of the policy proposal.
> >
> > Owen
>
> It really isn't the RIR's job to withdraw allocations due to bad
> behaviour as much as many of us would like it to be.  Failure to
> maintain valid contact details however is within the purview of the
> RIRs.
>
> If you are being attacked, report the attack to your LEA.  Let the
> LEA's maintain intellegence on which networks are permitting attacks
> to be launched from their address space.  They can work with LEA
> in the network's juristiction to get the attacks stops and offenders
> prosecuted.  LEA's can in theory also get courts to issue orders
> to filter offending address blocks by all ISP's in their juristiction.
>
> Mark
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