Abuse desks don't have the option not to. The usual responses to their using these reasons not to act involve blocking and null routing.
Some ccTLD managers figured that out too, the hard way - hkdnr for the hk cctld sometime in like 2008 when they ended up with more botnet cc and spam domains than legitimate ones and only reacted after extensive blocking and media
attention began to kick in. I remember but can't find a preso from Bonnie Chun of hkdnr at an apwg cecos event around then.
From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 9:37 PM
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Cc: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ; anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net
Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox")
Hi,
indeed, and this is why we should just not go there.
Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?
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